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the main movement in the Iranian Resistance, i.e., the 
Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK/PMOI), with subsequent death 
commissions established on July 19, 1988, counting 
among their members the current Iranian regime’s Presi-
dent, Ebrahim Raisi, with the express purpose of car-
rying out the fatwa; 
Whereas the IRGC has, for over four decades, played a cru-
cial role in internal suppression, terrorism, and regional 
proxy wars and has garnered designation as a terrorist 
entity by several nations, including the United States; 
Whereas the right to self-determination constitutes an inher-
ent and inalienable right of all peoples, including the Ira-
nian populace, forming a cornerstone of international law 
and duly enshrined in numerous international instru-
ments, including the Charter of the United Nations 
(1945), which underscores the principles of self-deter-
mination; 
Whereas, according to the Universal Declaration of Human 
Rights, ‘‘it is essential, if man is not to be compelled to 
have recourse, as a last resort, to rebellion against tyr-
anny and oppression, that human rights should be pro-
tected by the rule of law’’; 
Whereas the Declaration of Independence of the United 
States emphasizes, ‘‘whenever any Form of Government 
becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the 
People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Gov-
ernment’’, and that ‘‘when a long train of abuses and 
usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces 
a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is 
their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Govern-
ment, and to provide new Guards for their future secu-
rity’’; 
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Whereas the President of the Iranian regime, Ebrahim Raisi, 
who has been personally implicated in torture and execu-
tion since the inception of the regime, played a prominent 
role in the 1988 massacre and the suppression of the 
demonstrations of 2019 and 2022; 
Whereas over 900 women and men of Camp Ashraf 3 are 
former political prisoners who witnessed prison crimes of 
the Iranian regime, and many of them are witnesses of 
the 1988 massacre and other political killings in Iran, 
among them eyewitnesses of crimes committed by 
Ebrahim Raisi, who must be fully protected for potential 
testimonies before any international courts investigating 
the killings in Iran; 
Whereas, in November 2021, the Swedish judiciary moved 
the whole court in Stockholm to Albania for two weeks 
to facilitate hearing testimonies of 7 former Iranian polit-
ical prisoners now residing in Camp Ashraf 3, who were 
considered vital witnesses for a trial related to the 1988 
massacre; 
Whereas that Swedish court, in December 2023, upheld the 
earlier ruling of a life sentence for Hamid Nouri, impli-
cated in the 1988 massacre where he was one of the per-
petrators in one of Tehran’s prisons; and 
Whereas, in an April 19, 2016, letter to a European Par-
liament Vice President, the Prime Minister of Albania 
wrote, ‘‘Albania is fully engaged and committed to ensure 
for the Iranian refugees all rights stipulated in the Gene-
va Convention 1951, in the European Human Rights 
Convention and in the whole international legislation’’: 
Now, therefore, be it 
Resolved, That the House of Representatives— 
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(1) unequivocally condemns the Iranian re-
gime’s actions in the Middle East leading to and 
since the October 7, 2023, attacks, which have con-
tributed to terrorism and regional instability; 
(2) affirms that addressing the call of Iranian 
protesters for fundamental changes within Iran con-
tributes to peaceful coexistence among neighboring 
nations and enhances regional and global security; 
(3) acknowledges and upholds the Iranian peo-
ple’s inherent right to determine their political fu-
ture, as articulated in the United Nations Universal 
Declaration of Human Rights; 
(4) calls for holding the Iranian regime ac-
countable for its actions through the continued im-
position of sanctions and to support the Iranian Re-
sistance’s Ten-Point Plan for the Future of Iran; 
(5) urges the free world, given that the people 
of Iran have been deprived of all their fundamental 
rights and political paths for change within the 
framework of international law and the Universal 
Declaration of Human Rights, to recognize the 
rights of the Iranian people, the protesters, and the 
Resistance Units to confront the Islamic Revolu-
tionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and repressive forces 
to bring about change; 
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(6) calls on the United States Government, in 
cooperation with our ally Albania, to ensure the full 
protection of the Iranian political refugees in Camp 
Ashraf 3 in Albania against the Iranian regime’s 
plots and pressure and for them to benefit from all 
rights stipulated in the Geneva Convention 1951 and 
the European Convention on Human Rights, includ-
ing the right to life, liberty, and security, and pro-
tection of property, as well as freedom of expression 
and assembly; and 
(7) recognizes the rights of the Iranian people 
and their struggle to establish a democratic, secular, 
and nonnuclear Republic of Iran. 
Æ 
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