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and it continued to commit numerous serious abuses . . . 
the government severely limited citizens’ right to change 
their government peacefully through free and fair elec-
tions . . . authorities held political prisoners and intensi-
fied a crackdown against women’s rights reformers, eth-
nic minority rights activists, student activists, and reli-
gious minorities’’; 
Whereas the Government of Iran has engaged in a pattern 
of deception and evasion while the international commu-
nity has sought to ensure in good faith that Iran does 
not develop nuclear weapons, and poses a direct security 
threat to the United States and its allies in the region; 
Whereas the Government of Iran and pro-government militias 
continue to brutally suppress the Iranian people through 
censorship, imprisonment, and continued acts of violence 
against citizens seeking the exercise of basic freedoms; 
Whereas the Government of Iran has been responsible for the 
deaths of United States soldiers and civilians in Iraq and 
Afghanistan, including Iran’s provision of improvised ex-
plosive devices (IEDs) and explosively formed penetrators 
to insurgent forces in both theaters of war; 
Whereas the Government of Iran provides significant and on-
going economic and logistical support to terrorist organi-
zations, including Hezbollah, Hamas, and others; 
Whereas officials representing the Government of Iran have 
made and continue to make belligerent and unprovoked 
statements regarding the most critical regional ally of the 
United States, the State of Israel, including denial of the 
Holocaust and calls for the complete destruction of Israel 
itself; 
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•HCON 256 IH 
Whereas the concerns of the United States regarding Iran 
are strictly the result of the actions of the Government 
of Iran, that the people of the United States have feel-
ings of friendship for the people of Iran, and that cul-
tural exchanges and regulated travel between the people 
of Iran and of the United States is a benefit to both na-
tions; 
Whereas the Government of Iran regularly sponsors, displays, 
and disseminates propaganda calling for the destruction 
or defeat of the United States, often employing the 
phrase ‘‘Death to America’’, and referring to the United 
States as ‘‘the Great Satan’’; 
Whereas high-ranking members of the Government of Iran 
are known to have traveled freely to the United States 
to make use of medical facilities, visit tourist attractions, 
and in other ways enjoy access to social, economic, and 
recreational opportunities within the United States; 
Whereas, due to a higher probability of satisfying the eco-
nomic and social criteria required as part of the Depart-
ment of State’s travel visa process, Iranians with eco-
nomic and political connections to the Government of 
Iran are more likely to enjoy the benefits of travel to the 
United States than the average Iranian citizen; and 
Whereas the United States cannot continue to allow the in-
herent hypocrisy of an anti-American regime whose mem-
bers benefit disproportionately from the ability to travel 
freely to, and enjoy the benefits of, opportunities, and re-
sources available within the United States: Now, there-
fore, be it 
Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate 
concurring), That it is the sense of Congress that any offi-
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cial within the Government of Iran at the level of deputy 
minister or higher or officer within the Iranian Revolu-
tionary Guard is presumptively ineligible for a travel visa 
to the United States. 
Æ 
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