IV 
118TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. RES. 1148 
Condemning the Iranian regime’s terrorism, regional proxy war, internal 
suppression, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
APRIL 15, 2024 
Mr. WEBER of Texas (for himself, Ms. ADAMS, Mr. ALLEN, Mr. AMODEI, Mr. 
BABIN, Mr. BACON, Mr. BAIRD, Mr. BALDERSON, Mr. BANKS, Mr. BEAN 
of Florida, Mr. BERA, Mr. BERGMAN, Mr. BILIRAKIS, Mr. BISHOP of 
Georgia, Mr. BOST, Mr. BUCSHON, Mr. BURCHETT, Mr. BURGESS, Mr. 
CALVERT, Mrs. CAMMACK, Mr. CA´RDENAS, Mr. CARTER of Georgia, Mr. 
CARTER of Louisiana, Mrs. CHAVEZ-DEREMER, Mr. CISCOMANI, Ms. 
CLARKE of New York, Mr. CLINE, Mr. CLYDE, Mr. COHEN, Mr. COSTA, 
Ms. CRAIG, Mr. CRENSHAW, Mr. DAVIS of Illinois, Ms. DE LA CRUZ, Mr. 
DESJARLAIS, Mr. D’ESPOSITO, Mr. DUARTE, Mr. DUNCAN, Mr. DUNN 
of Florida, Mr. EDWARDS, Mr. ELLZEY, Mr. EZELL, Mr. FALLON, Mr. 
FEENSTRA, Mr. FERGUSON, Mr. FINSTAD, Mr. FITZPATRICK, Mr. 
FLEISCHMANN, Mr. FLOOD, Mr. SCOTT FRANKLIN of Florida, Mr. 
FULCHER, Mr. GALLEGO, Mr. MIKE GARCIA of California, Mr. GIMENEZ, 
Mr. TONY GONZALES of Texas, Mr. VICENTE GONZALEZ of Texas, Mrs. 
GONZA´LEZ-COLO´N, 
Mr. 
GOODEN
of 
Texas, 
Mr. 
GOSAR, 
Mr. 
GOTTHEIMER, Ms. GRANGER, Mr. GREEN of Tennessee, Mr. GROTHMAN, 
Mr. GUEST, Mr. HARRIS, Mr. HIGGINS of Louisiana, Mrs. HINSON, Mr. 
HUNT, Mr. ISSA, Mr. JACKSON of Texas, Ms. JACKSON LEE, Mr. JOYCE 
of Pennsylvania, Mr. KELLY of Mississippi, Mrs. KIGGANS of Virginia, 
Mr. LALOTA, Mr. LAMALFA, Mr. LAMBORN, Mr. LANGWORTHY, Mr. 
LAWLER, Mrs. LESKO, Ms. LOFGREN, Mr. LOUDERMILK, Mr. LUETKE-
MEYER, Mr. LUTTRELL, Ms. MACE, Ms. MALLIOTAKIS, Mr. MAST, Mrs. 
MCBATH, Mrs. MCCLAIN, Mr. MCCLINTOCK, Mr. MCCORMICK, Mr. 
MEUSER, Mrs. MILLER of West Virginia, Mrs. MILLER of Illinois, Mr. 
MILLER
of 
Ohio, 
Mrs. 
MILLER-MEEKS, 
Mr. 
MOLINARO, 
Mr. 
MOOLENAAR, Mr. MOONEY, Mr. MOORE of Alabama, Mr. MOYLAN, Mr. 
NEHLS, Mr. NEWHOUSE, Mr. NUNN of Iowa, Mr. OGLES, Mr. OWENS, 
Mr. PALMER, Mr. PANETTA, Mr. PAPPAS, Mr. PAYNE, Ms. ROSS, Mr. 
RUIZ, Mr. RUTHERFORD, Mr. AUSTIN SCOTT of Georgia, Mr. SELF, Mr. 
SESSIONS, Mr. SHERMAN, Mr. SMITH of Nebraska, Ms. SPANBERGER, 
Mrs. SPARTZ, Mr. STAUBER, Ms. STEFANIK, Mr. STEUBE, Mr. THOMP-
SON of Pennsylvania, Mr. TIFFANY, Mr. TIMMONS, Mr. TURNER, Mr. 
VALADAO, Mr. VAN DREW, Ms. VAN DUYNE, Mr. VAN ORDEN, Mr. 
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•HRES 1148 IH 
VARGAS, Mr. VEASEY, Mr. WALBERG, Mr. WEBSTER of Florida, Mr. 
WESTERMAN, Ms. WEXTON, Mr. WILLIAMS of New York, Mr. WILLIAMS 
of Texas, Mr. WILSON
of South Carolina, Mr. GARAMENDI, Mr. 
PFLUGER, and Mr. JOHNSON of South Dakota) submitted the following 
resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs 
RESOLUTION 
Condemning the Iranian regime’s terrorism, regional proxy 
war, internal suppression, and for other purposes. 
Whereas the United States acknowledges the critical impor-
tance of addressing regional chaos in the Middle East, 
which has been significantly heightened since the October 
7, 2023, attacks; 
Whereas grave concerns persist regarding Iran’s complicity in 
promoting Islamic fundamentalism and providing support 
for terrorism and its proxy groups in the region; 
Whereas Iranian regime officials have expressed full support 
for their proxy groups’ current war and crisis in the re-
gion; 
Whereas Iranian regime officials talk about the existence of 
a joint operation room with their proxy groups at the 
highest levels, operating amid the Middle East turmoil; 
Whereas ignoring Tehran’s direct involvement in the conflict 
and its ensuing crisis encourages Iran’s Supreme Leader, 
Ali Khamenei, and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard 
Corps (IRGC) to further fuel the conflict; 
Whereas Western nations bear a responsibility to hold the 
Iranian regime accountable for its actions that incite vio-
lence, terror, and instability; 
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•HRES 1148 IH 
Whereas the Iranian regime has been deeply implicated in 
furnishing support, both financial and military, to proxies 
in Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Yemen, Gaza, and elsewhere in 
the region, as well as on a global scale; 
Whereas the Iranian regime has increasingly acted, since Oc-
tober 2023, as the head of the snake of terrorism and 
war in the region, from supporting proxies that vehe-
mently oppose peace in the Middle East to threatening 
ships and free trade in the Red Sea, and from targeting 
American forces in the region to providing missiles and 
drones to rogue actors; 
Whereas the Iranian regime has stepped up hostage diplo-
macy as a primary tool of its foreign policy, using it 
against Western nations to release its criminals and ter-
rorists; 
Whereas Asadullah Assadi, a senior Iranian diplomat based 
in the Iranian Embassy in Vienna, Austria, was arrested 
in July 2018 and in February 2021, convicted in Bel-
gium and sentenced to 20 years of imprisonment in con-
nection with the planned terror plot against ‘‘Free Iran 
2018—The Alternative’’ gathering in Paris, France; 
Whereas the Iranian regime’s survival depends heavily on its 
internal suppression and terror campaign abroad, using 
its terror proxies; 
Whereas significant protests in Iran in the years 2018, 2019, 
and 2022 have echoed the demand for the rejection of the 
Velayat-e Faqih (guardianship of Islamic jurist) to safe-
guard the sovereignty of the people in a republic founded 
on universal suffrage and pluralism; 
Whereas, commencing in September 2022, widespread 
antigovernment protests were triggered by the untimely 
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•HRES 1148 IH 
demise of Mahsa (Zhina) Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish 
Iranian woman who was detained by the morality police 
who are tasked with enforcing Iran’s mandatory dress 
code regulations; 
Whereas the leadership of the 2022 protests in Iran has been 
predominantly assumed by women and youth who ar-
dently advocate for social freedoms and political trans-
formation; 
Whereas, during several months of persistent protests in 
countless cities across Iran, the security forces of the re-
gime caused the loss of life of hundreds and detained 
tens of thousands of demonstrators, and among the ar-
rested, several individuals were executed starting in De-
cember 2022, and continuing to date, while dozens more 
face the specter of execution under charges of 
‘‘moharebeh’’ (waging war on God); 
Whereas the uniformity in slogans and strategies employed 
by protesters nationwide underscores the overarching as-
pirations of the Iranian people for freedom and empha-
sizes the organized nature of these protests; 
Whereas the Iranian regime has arbitrarily and brutally sup-
pressed ethnic and religious minorities, encompassing 
Iranian Kurds, Baluchis, Arabs, Christians, Jews, Ba-
ha’is, Zoroastrians, and even Sunni Muslims, and has de-
prived them of their fundamental human rights, often 
culminating in executions; 
Whereas the Iranian people have been deprived of their fun-
damental freedoms, for which reason they are rejecting 
monarchic dictatorship and religious tyranny, as evident 
in their protest slogans; 
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•HRES 1148 IH 
Whereas the Iranian populace has voiced its desire for change 
by taking over from the IRGC and Supreme Leader’s 
centers of power; 
Whereas, according to senior Iranian regime officials, the ac-
tivities of the Resistance Units against the IRGC and the 
Basij forces have played a leading role in nationwide Iran 
protests, particularly since 2022, and the regime has re-
portedly killed and detained thousands of them, yet 
Tehran remains increasingly paranoid about their activi-
ties; 
Whereas, in 2023, the Iranian regime started sham trials in 
absentia of some 104 veteran members of the Iranian Re-
sistance, who are primarily based in Europe, including in 
France and Albania, to create a phony legal precedent 
against them and have them extradited to Iran or justify 
terror plots against them; 
Whereas over 3,600 parliamentarians around the world and 
125 former world leaders expressed support for the Ten- 
Point Plan for the Future of Iran of Mrs. Maryam 
Rajavi that calls for the universal right to vote, free elec-
tions, a market economy, and separation of religion and 
state, and advocates gender, religious, and ethnic equal-
ity, a foreign policy based on peaceful coexistence, peace 
in the Middle East, and a nonnuclear Republic of Iran; 
Whereas it is incumbent upon the Iranian people to deter-
mine their destiny, based on their vote, as the sole cri-
teria for political legitimacy; 
Whereas the executions of as many as 30,000 political pris-
oners during the 1988 massacre were carried out under 
the fatwa by then-Supreme Leader Ruhollah Khomeini to 
speedily kill all political prisoners who remained loyal to 
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