IV 
110TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. CON. RES. 21 
Calling on the United Nations Security Council to charge Iranian President 
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad with violating the 1948 Convention on the Pre-
vention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide and the United Na-
tions Charter because of his calls for the destruction of the State of 
Israel. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JANUARY 9, 2007 
Mr. ROTHMAN (for himself, Mr. KIRK, Mr. TOWNS, Mr. CROWLEY, Mr. 
ENGEL, Mrs. MCCARTHY of New York, Ms. SCHAKOWSKY, Mr. JOHNSON 
of Illinois, Mr. INGLIS of South Carolina, Mr. BURTON of Indiana, Ms. 
BERKLEY, Mr. SESSIONS, Mr. PATRICK MURPHY of Pennsylvania, Mr. 
FATTAH, Mr. CARNEY, Mr. MCNULTY, Mr. KLEIN of Florida, Mr. 
MCCAUL of Texas, Mr. MANZULLO, Mr. ROHRABACHER, Mr. SAXTON, 
and Mr. LEWIS of Georgia) submitted the following concurrent resolution; 
which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs 
CONCURRENT RESOLUTION 
Calling on the United Nations Security Council to charge 
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad with violating 
the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment 
of the Crime of Genocide and the United Nations Char-
ter because of his calls for the destruction of the State 
of Israel. 
Whereas the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punish-
ment of the Crime of Genocide (commonly referred to as 
the ‘‘Genocide Convention’’) defines genocide as, among 
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other things, the act of killing members of a national, 
ethnic, racial, or religious group with the intent to de-
stroy, in whole or in part, the targeted group, and it also 
prohibits conspiracy to commit genocide, as well as ‘‘di-
rect and public incitement to commit genocide’’; 
Whereas Article 4 of the Genocide Convention provides that 
individuals committing any of the listed genocidal crimes 
shall be punished ‘‘whether they are constitutionally re-
sponsible rulers, public officials or private individuals’’; 
Whereas 133 Member States of the United Nations have rati-
fied the Genocide Convention and thereby pledged to 
prosecute those individuals who violate its criteria for in-
citement to commit genocide, as well as those individuals 
who commit genocide directly; 
Whereas 61 years ago the United Nations was founded to 
prevent another Holocaust, the Nazi genocide carried out 
during World War II that resulted in the slaughter of 6 
million Jews in Europe, from happening ever again; 
Whereas Article 2, Section 4, of the United Nations Charter, 
to which Iran has agreed as a Member State of the 
United Nations, requires all Member States of the United 
Nations to ‘‘refrain in their international relations from 
the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity 
or political independence of any state’’; 
Whereas, on October 27, 2005, at the World Without Zion-
ism Conference in Tehran, Iran, Iranian President 
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called for Israel to be ‘‘wiped off 
the map’’, described Israel as ‘‘a disgraceful blot [on] the 
face of the Islamic world’’, and declared that ‘‘[a]nybody 
who recognizes Israel will burn in the fire of the Islamic 
nation’s fury’’; 
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Whereas, on December 12, 2006, Iranian President 
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad addressed a conference in 
Tehran questioning the history of the Holocaust and said 
that Israel would ‘‘soon be wiped out’’; 
Whereas, on December 14, 2006, incoming United Nations 
Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said that Iran’s calls for 
Israel’s destruction and its dismissal of the Holocaust are 
‘‘unacceptable’’, and expressed concern about the regional 
and global security implications of Tehran’s nuclear pro-
gram; 
Whereas, on August 3, 2006, in a speech during an emer-
gency meeting of Muslim leaders, Iranian President 
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad stated that the Middle East 
would be better off ‘‘without the existence of the Zionist 
regime’’, called Israel an ‘‘illegitimate regime’’ with ‘‘no 
legal basis for its existence’’, and accused the United 
States of using Israel as a proxy to control the region 
and its oil resources; 
Whereas Iran funds, trains, and openly supports terrorist 
groups, including Hamas, Hezbollah, and Islamic Jihad 
among many others, that are determined to destroy 
Israel; 
Whereas, on December 14, 2001, the President of Iran’s Ex-
pediency Council, Ali Akbar Hashemi-Rafsanjani, threat-
ened Israel with nuclear attack, saying, ‘‘[i]f one day, the 
Islamic world is also equipped with weapons like those 
that Israel possesses now, then the imperialists’ strategy 
will reach a standstill because the use of even one nuclear 
bomb inside Israel will destroy everything [in Israel], 
while it will merely harm the Islamic world’’; 
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Whereas Iran has aggressively pursued a clandestine effort to 
arm itself with nuclear weapons; and 
Whereas the longstanding policy of the Iranian regime is 
aimed at destroying the democratic State of Israel, the 
only democracy in the Middle East and the most impor-
tant strategic ally of the United States, which is con-
firmed by statements such as those made by Iranian 
President 
Ahmadinejad 
and 
Council 
President 
Rafsanjani, demonstrating the threat of a nuclear-armed 
Iran: Now, therefore, be it 
Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate 
concurring), That Congress— 
(1) condemns, in the strongest terms, Iranian 
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s offensive re-
marks, contemptible statements, and reprehensible 
policies aimed at the destruction of the State of 
Israel; 
(2) calls on the United Nations Security Coun-
cil 
to 
charge 
Iranian 
President 
Mahmoud 
Ahmadinejad with violating the 1948 Convention on 
the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of 
Genocide and Article 2, Section 4, of the United Na-
tions Charter; 
(3) further calls on the United Nations Security 
Council and all Member States of the United Na-
tions to consider measures to prevent Iran from ob-
taining nuclear weapons, which would be both a dan-
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gerous violation of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation 
Treaty and a potential means to the end of carrying 
out President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s threats 
against Israel; and 
(4) reaffirms the unwavering strategic partner-
ship between the United States and Israel and re-
asserts the steadfast commitment of the United 
States to defend the right of Israel to exist as a free 
and democratic state. 
Æ 
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