IV 
112TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. RES. 60 
Urging the Secretary of State to remove the People’s Mojahedin Organization 
of Iran from the Department of State’s list of Foreign Terrorist Organi-
zations. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JANUARY 26, 2011 
Mr. POE of Texas (for himself, Mr. ROHRABACHER, Ms. JACKSON LEE of 
Texas, Mr. DICKS, Mr. TOWNS, Ms. CHU, Mr. YOUNG of Alaska, Mr. 
CLEAVER, Mr. SCHOCK, and Mr. FRANKS of Arizona) submitted the fol-
lowing resolution; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, 
and in addition to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, for a period to be 
subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration 
of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee con-
cerned 
RESOLUTION 
Urging the Secretary of State to remove the People’s 
Mojahedin Organization of Iran from the Department 
of State’s list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations. 
Whereas the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran 
(PMOI/MEK) seeks freedom, democracy, and human 
rights for the people of Iran; 
Whereas tens of thousands of MEK members have been exe-
cuted by the Iranian regime; 
Whereas tens of thousands of MEK members have been jailed 
and tortured by the Iranian regime; 
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Whereas in 2001, the MEK ceased its military activities 
against the Iranian regime and rejected violence; 
Whereas in 2003, the MEK voluntarily handed over all its 
arms to United States forces in Iraq and cooperated with 
United States military at Camp Ashraf; 
Whereas in 2004, MEK members in Camp Ashraf obtained 
‘‘protected persons’’ status under the Fourth Geneva 
Convention based on the United States investigators’ con-
clusions that none was a combatant or had committed a 
crime under any United States laws; 
Whereas in 2004, all members of the MEK in Camp Ashraf, 
including its leadership, signed a document rejecting vio-
lence and terrorism; 
Whereas according to the Intelligence Community Terrorist 
Threat Assessment: ‘‘The August 2002 public disclosure 
by the MEK of two Iranian nuclear facilities was a wa-
tershed event that led to intrusive inspections by the 
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and further 
public revelations of previously undeclared efforts by the 
civilian Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) to 
develop a large nuclear fuel cycle.’’; 
Whereas the MEK has continued to reveal valuable intel-
ligence about Iran’s nuclear program, including addi-
tional secret and underground sites, which according to 
a senior Los Alamos Laboratory analyst is ‘‘right 90 per-
cent of the time’’; 
Whereas senior United States military officers have acknowl-
edged on multiple occasions that MEK’s intelligence has 
played a positive and effective role in saving the lives of 
American soldiers by exposing the threats and dangers of 
Iran’s terrorist interventions in Iraq; 
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Whereas in 2007, the United Kingdom’s Proscribed 
Organisations Appeal Commission (POAC) concluded 
after reviewing classified and unclassified evidence, that 
the designation of the MEK was ‘‘perverse’’ and had to 
be set aside; 
Whereas in 2008, the English Court of Appeal, in upholding 
the judgment of POAC, emphasized that a review of clas-
sified material had reinforced its view that the MEK was 
not engaged in terrorism nor did it intend to engage in 
such activity in the future; 
Whereas in 2008, the United Kingdom removed the MEK 
from the list of proscribed organizations and lifted all the 
consequent restrictions; 
Whereas in 2006 and 2008, the Court of First Instance of 
the European Communities in three separate judgments 
concluded that the European Union had denied the 
MEK’s right to defense and failed to provide any evi-
dence that would justify the inclusion of the MEK in its 
terrorist lists, and therefore annulled the MEK’s designa-
tion; 
Whereas in 2009, the Council of Ministers of the European 
Union voted unanimously to remove the MEK from the 
European Union’s list of terrorist organizations; 
Whereas in 2010, some 3,500 European Parliamentarians 
supported the MEK and its platform; 
Whereas in July 2010, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Dis-
trict of Columbia Circuit held that the Department of 
State’s designation of the MEK as a Foreign Terrorist 
Organization (FTO) under section 219 of the Immigra-
tion and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1189) was faulty be-
cause it violated the due process rights of the group; 
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Whereas section 219 of the Immigration and Nationality Act 
allows the Secretary of State to revoke an FTO designa-
tion if ‘‘the circumstances that were the basis for the des-
ignation have changed in such a manner as to warrant 
revocation; or the national security of the United States 
warrants a revocation’’; 
Whereas the Secretary of State has so far failed to present 
the Congress with credible evidence showing that the 
MEK engages in terrorist activity, or terrorism, or has 
the capability and intent to engage in terrorism that 
threatens the national security of the United States or 
the security of United States nationals; 
Whereas the Government of Iran has used the FTO designa-
tion of the MEK as a pretext to execute its members in 
Iran; 
Whereas the FTO designation of the MEK has been used by 
Iranian surrogates in Iraq as well as the Nuri al-Maliki 
Government in Iraq to attack the MEK members in 
Camp Ashraf or impose inhumane restrictions on them, 
which has led to loss of life; 
Whereas the Iranian regime ignored international calls for 
their release, including those made by Secretary of State 
Hillary Clinton, and hanged Jafar Kazemi, age 47, and 
Mohammad Ali Hajaghaie, age 62, on January 24, 2011, 
and Ali Saremi, age 63, on December 28, 2010, for vis-
iting their sons at Camp Ashraf and voicing their support 
of MEK; and 
Whereas Congress, by an Act of Congress, may block or re-
voke a designation of an organization as an FTO under 
section 219 of the Immigration and Nationality Act: 
Now, therefore, be it 
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Resolved, That the House of Representatives— 
(1) urges the Secretary of State to remove the 
People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/ 
MEK) from the Department of State’s list of For-
eign Terrorist Organizations; and 
(2) urges the Secretary of State to lift all re-
strictions imposed on the MEK, its members, and its 
affiliates, which has emanated from its designation 
as a Foreign Terrorist Organization. 
Æ 
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