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front to all world nations’’ and has consistently referred 
to Zionists in both the United States and Israel as ‘‘the 
true manifestation of Satan’’; 
Whereas Ahmadinejad has often called for the destruction of 
Israel, demanding for it to be ‘‘wiped off the map’’; 
Whereas Ahmadinejad has consistently denied the evidence of 
the Holocaust, an event that took the lives of more than 
6,000,000 Jewish people; 
Whereas under Article 2, paragraph 4 of the United Nations 
Charter, all members of the United Nations shall refrain 
in their international relations from the threat or use of 
force against the territorial integrity or political inde-
pendence of any state, but Ahmadinejad has specifically 
failed to do so; 
Whereas Ahmadinejad and his regime pose a clear threat to 
national security interests in the United States, as dem-
onstrated by Tehran’s nuclear program and their endur-
ing assistance to terrorist groups in the Middle East and 
the Western Hemisphere including Hamas, Hezbollah, 
and other extremists that seek to undermine regional sta-
bility and threaten the good order of the United Nations; 
Whereas the Government of Iran has been subject to numer-
ous United Nations Security Council and International 
Atomic Energy Agency resolutions; 
Whereas Ahmadinejad has publicly denounced and spoken 
out against the terms of the resolutions pertaining to the 
proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, in clear vio-
lation of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear 
Weapons; 
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Whereas current United States sanctions have not yet 
stopped the Government of Iran from moving forward 
with its illicit nuclear program; 
Whereas Ahmadinejad is scheduled to address the United Na-
tions General Assembly on September 26, 2012, on the 
Jewish High Holiday of Yom Kippur; 
Whereas Yom Kippur, the ‘‘Day of Atonement’’ is regarded 
as the most sacred holiday in the Jewish faith; 
Whereas it would not only be offensive, but insensitive for the 
United Nations to allow Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to ad-
dress the General Assembly at all, let alone on the holiest 
of all Jewish holidays, Yom Kippur, after making such 
vicious statements towards world Jewry and the State of 
Israel; 
Whereas the United States must urge the United Nations to 
prevent this speech from taking place; 
Whereas Jewish people all over the world should be able to 
observe their holy day in peace; 
Whereas an outspoken, anti-semitic Iranian leader should not 
be given the opportunity to criticize a Jewish person’s 
right to freely practice religion or denounce Israel’s right 
to exist on the largest international stage; and 
Whereas Ahmadinejad and the leaders of the Islamic Repub-
lic of Iran have shown that they are not willing to work 
with the international community or respect the order of 
the United Nations: Now, therefore, be it 
Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate 
concurring), 
That 
Congress 
condemns 
President 
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and the leaders of the Islamic Re-
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public of Iran for addressing the United Nations on Yom 
Kippur. 
Æ 
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