IV 
117TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. RES. 118 
Expressing support for the Iranian people’s desire for a democratic, secular, 
and nonnuclear Republic of Iran and condemning violations of human 
rights and state-sponsored terrorism by the Iranian Government. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
FEBRUARY 11, 2021 
Mr. MCCLINTOCK (for himself, Mr. SHERMAN, Mr. WEBSTER of Florida, Mr. 
FITZPATRICK, Mr. LOUDERMILK, Mr. BABIN, Mr. CRENSHAW, Mr. BILI-
RAKIS, Mr. NORMAN, Mr. FLEISCHMANN, Mr. HICE of Georgia, Mr. 
GAETZ, Mr. GROTHMAN, Mr. MAST, Mr. MEUSER, Mr. GRIFFITH, Mr. 
COHEN, Mr. BACON, Mr. RUIZ, Ms. CRAIG, Mr. PETERS, Mr. LAMALFA, 
Ms. CHU, Mr. PERRY, Mr. LUETKEMEYER, Mrs. WAGNER, Mr. CALVERT, 
Mr. GREEN of Tennessee, Ms. BROWNLEY, Ms. STEFANIK, Mr. AGUILAR, 
Mr. BIGGS, Mr. CARTWRIGHT, Miss RICE of New York, Mrs. WALORSKI, 
Mrs. LESKO, Mr. BUDD, Mr. WALTZ, Mr. BURCHETT, Mr. COURTNEY, 
Mr. WOMACK, Mr. STANTON, Ms. GRANGER, Mr. LAMBORN, Mr. 
STAUBER, Mr. ZELDIN, Mr. HARDER of California, Mr. ALLEN, Mr. 
BERA, Mr. PAYNE, Mr. CLOUD, Mr. WENSTRUP, Mr. JOHNSON of Lou-
isiana, Mrs. NAPOLITANO, Ms. JACKSON LEE, Mr. BUCSHON, Mr. 
ROUZER, Mr. TIMMONS, Mr. STEUBE, Mr. RUTHERFORD, Mr. BURGESS, 
Mr. WEBER of Texas, Mr. BRADY, Mr. HUDSON, Mr. LATTA, Mr. ROG-
ERS of Kentucky, Mrs. MCBATH, Miss GONZA´LEZ-COLO´N, Mr. VICENTE 
GONZALEZ of Texas, Mr. LAHOOD, Mr. FERGUSON, Mr. ESTES, Mrs. 
RODGERS of Washington, Mr. KATKO, Mr. CLINE, Mr. KELLER, Mr. 
DIAZ-BALART, Mr. GUTHRIE, Mrs. FLETCHER, Mrs. MILLER of West 
Virginia, Mr. ADERHOLT, Mr. CRAWFORD, Mr. WILSON of South Caro-
lina, Mr. SMITH of Missouri, Ms. MALLIOTAKIS, Mr. GONZALEZ of Ohio, 
Mr. YOUNG, Mr. GUEST, Mr. BARR, Mr. GOODEN of Texas, Mr. TAYLOR, 
Mr. LARSON of Connecticut, Mr. COSTA, Mr. DESJARLAIS, Mr. AUSTIN 
SCOTT of Georgia, Mr. SCHWEIKERT, Mr. MOORE of Alabama, Ms. WIL-
SON of Florida, Mrs. HARTZLER, Mr. EMMER, Mr. FULCHER, Mr. 
MOOLENAAR, Mr. NEHLS, Mr. JOHNSON of Ohio, Mr. WESTERMAN, Mr. 
HAGEDORN, Mr. ALLRED, Mr. HILL, Mr. HUIZENGA, Mr. PHILLIPS, Mr. 
NEWHOUSE, Mr. BROOKS, and Mr. AMODEI) submitted the following res-
olution; which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs 
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RESOLUTION 
Expressing support for the Iranian people’s desire for a 
democratic, secular, and nonnuclear Republic of Iran 
and condemning violations of human rights and state- 
sponsored terrorism by the Iranian Government. 
Whereas beginning in 2017, and continuing for several 
months after protests erupted in more than 100 cities, 
the Iranian regime suppressed such protests with repres-
sive forces that resulted in at least 25 deaths and 4,000 
arrests, including decorated wrestling champion Navid 
Afkari, who was later executed in September 2020 
amidst international outrage; 
Whereas, on November 15, 2019, popular protests against 
the Iranian regime began and rapidly spread to at least 
100 cities throughout the country, and reports indicate 
that Iranian security forces used lethal force and about 
1,500 people were killed during less than two weeks of 
unrest, and thousands more were detained during these 
protests; 
Whereas, in the 116th Congress, the House of Representa-
tives passed House Resolution 752, ‘‘Supporting the 
rights of the people of Iran to free expression, con-
demning the Iranian regime for its crackdown on legiti-
mate protests, and for other purposes.’’; 
Whereas House Resolution 752 urges the Administration to 
work to convene emergency sessions of the United Na-
tions Security Council and to work with United States 
partners and allies to condemn the ongoing human rights 
violations perpetrated by the Iranian regime and estab-
lish a mechanism by which the United Nations Security 
Council can monitor such violations; 
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Whereas according to a September 2, 2020, Amnesty Inter-
national report, detained protesters were subjected to 
‘‘widespread torture including beatings, floggings, electric 
shocks, stress positions, mock executions, waterboarding, 
sexual violence, forced administration of chemical sub-
stances, and deprivation of medical care’’; 
Whereas, from January 11 to 13, 2020, protesters gathered 
across Iran chanting against Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali 
Khamenei and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps 
after it shot down a Ukrainian passenger plane killing 
176 civilians, and Iranian authorities deployed tear gas 
and live ammunition against the protesters; 
Whereas the Iranian regime has routinely violated the human 
rights of Iranian citizens, including by implementing on-
going, systematic, and serious restrictions of freedom of 
peaceful assembly and association and freedom of opinion 
and expression, including the continuing closures of 
media outlets, arrests of journalists, and the censorship 
of expression in online forums such as blogs and 
websites; 
Whereas the Iranian regime has killed or arrested more than 
860 journalists since 1979; 
Whereas the Iranian regime has lured three political activists 
to Iran’s neighboring countries, where they were ab-
ducted and transferred to Iran, of which one, Ruhollah 
Zam, was executed on December 12, 2020; 
Whereas the Iranian regime has arbitrarily and brutally sup-
pressed ethnic minorities, including Iranian Kurds, 
Baluchis, and Arabs, as well as religious minorities such 
as Christians, Jews, Baha’is, Zoroastrians, and even 
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Sunni Muslims and deprived them of their basic human 
rights, and has in many cases executed them; 
Whereas, in the 115th Congress, the House of Representa-
tives passed H.R. 4744 calling on the United States to 
‘‘condemn Iranian human rights abuses against dis-
sidents, including the massacre in 1988 and the suppres-
sion of political demonstrations in 1999, 2009, and 2017, 
and pressure the Government of Iran to provide family 
members detailed information that they were denied 
about the final resting places of any missing victims of 
such abuses’’; 
Whereas the killings were carried out on the orders of a 
judge, an official from the Ministry of Intelligence, and 
a state prosecutor, known to the prisoners as ‘‘Death 
Commissions’’, which were formed on July 19, 1988, and 
undertook proceedings in a manner designed to eliminate 
the regime’s opponents; 
Whereas Amnesty International described as a ‘‘momentous 
breakthrough’’ marking a ‘‘turning point’’ the September 
3, 2020, communication by seven United Nations human 
rights experts, regarding information that ‘‘between July 
and September 1988, the Iranian authorities forcibly dis-
appeared and extrajudicially executed thousands of im-
prisoned political dissidents affiliated with political oppo-
sition groups in 32 cities in secret and discarded their 
bodies, mostly in unmarked mass graves’’, as United Na-
tions experts warned that ‘‘the situation may amount to 
crimes against humanity’’; 
Whereas the United Nations calls on the international com-
munity to take action to investigate the cases through the 
establishment of an international investigation; 
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Whereas the United States should be involved in any estab-
lishment of an international investigation into the 1988 
extrajudicial killings of Iranian dissidents; 
Whereas senior Iranian Government, military, judicial, and 
security officials have for decades ordered or committed 
egregious human rights violations and acts of terror; 
Whereas the Iranian people have been deprived of their fun-
damental freedoms for which reason they rejected 
monarchic dictatorship and are opposing religious tyr-
anny; 
Whereas, on June 30, 2018, tens of thousands of people 
gathered in Paris at the Free Iran gathering where they 
supported advocates for a democratic, secular, and non- 
nuclear Republic of Iran, and showed support for the op-
position leader Mrs. Maryam Rajavi’s 10-point plan for 
the future of Iran, which calls for the universal right to 
vote, free elections, and a market economy, and advocates 
gender, religious, and ethnic equality, a foreign policy 
based on peaceful coexistence, and a nonnuclear Iran; 
Whereas, on July 2, 2018, the Belgian Federal Prosecutor’s 
Office announced it had foiled a terrorist plot against the 
‘‘Free Iran 2018–the Alternative’’ gathering held on 
June 30, 2018, in support of the Iranian people’s strug-
gle for freedom; 
Whereas several prominent bipartisan former United States 
Government officials, several retired United States gen-
erals, congressional staff, and thousands of American 
citizens participated in that gathering; 
Whereas Assadollah Assadi, a senior Iranian diplomat based 
in the Iranian Embassy in Vienna, Austria, was arrested 
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in Germany in connection with the planned terror plot in 
Paris; 
Whereas the Iranian diplomat has been charged in Belgium 
in connection with the Paris terror plot and in Germany 
with ‘‘activity as a foreign agent and conspiracy to com-
mit murder’’; 
Whereas, on February 4, 2021, a court in Belgium sentenced 
Iran’s diplomat Assadollah Assadi to the maximum sen-
tence of 20 years imprisonment for his role in planning 
to plant a bomb at the Free Iran gathering in 2018, and 
his 3 accomplices were given jail terms of 15 to 18 years 
and stripped of their Belgian citizenship; 
Whereas Assadi took an Iranian-made bomb from Iran to 
Europe on a commercial flight, and delivered it to his ac-
complices with the aim of causing mass casualties at the 
Free Iran gathering in Paris in 2018; 
Whereas the Belgium court found ‘‘that the four defendants 
are part of a larger terrorist group within a specific Ira-
nian intelligence service. This appears from the sums of 
money paid to the defendants, the way information was 
gathered, the meetings in Iran, the use of diplomatic sta-
tus, and the making and testing of the explosive device 
in Iran itself.’’; 
Whereas, on July 10, 2018, a senior Department of State of-
ficial said, ‘‘Iran uses embassies as cover to plot terrorist 
attacks’’, and that ‘‘The most recent example is the plot 
that the Belgians foiled, and we had an Iranian diplomat 
out of the Austrian Embassy as part of the plot to bomb 
a meeting of Iranian opposition leaders in Paris.’’; 
Whereas, in January 2019, the European Union (EU) in-
cluded the Internal Security Division of the Iranian Min-
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istry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS), and two of its 
officials on the EU terror list in connection with the 
Paris bomb plot; 
Whereas according to the Select Iran-Sponsored Operational 
Activity in Europe, released by the Department of State 
on July 5, 2018, ‘‘Two Iranian operatives were arrested 
on charges of terrorism by Albanian authorities’’, for a 
bomb plot against the March 2018 New Year gathering 
of thousands of Iranian opposition members in Tirana; 
Whereas, in December 2018, the Government of Albania ex-
pelled Iran’s Ambassador, Gholamhossein Mohammadnia, 
and MOIS station chief in Albania, Mostafa Roudaki, for 
planning terrorist activities against Iranian dissidents 
and members of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of 
Iran (PMOI/MEK); 
Whereas, in January 2020, the Government of Albania ex-
pelled two other Iranian diplomats also for planning ter-
rorist activities against the MEK; 
Whereas the expulsion of the Iranian Ambassador by the 
Government of Albania is a positive and important step, 
which sends the right message that no Iranian embassies 
should be used for plotting terror and conducting spying 
activities against dissidents; 
Whereas Iran’s malign activities in the Balkans, specifically 
its presence and activities in Albania, pose a serious 
threat to United States national security interests; 
Whereas the Department of State has urged ‘‘all nations to 
be vigilant about Iran using embassies as diplomatic 
cover to plot terrorist attacks’’; and 
Whereas the United States Government arrested two Iranian 
nationals in August 2018 who had acted on behalf of the 
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MOIS to conduct covert surveillance in the United States 
against officials of the National Council of Resistance of 
Iran for a target package, which, according to the De-
partment of Justice Federal complaint, may include ‘‘ap-
prehension, recruitment, cyber exploitation, or capture/ 
kill operations’’, and that they pleaded guilty and were 
sentenced to imprisonment: Now, therefore, be it 
Resolved, That the House of Representatives— 
(1) condemns past and present Iranian state- 
sponsored terrorist attacks against United States 
citizens and officials, as well as Iranian dissidents, 
including the Iranian regime’s terror plot against 
the ‘‘Free Iran 2018–the Alternative’’ gathering in 
Paris; 
(2) calls on relevant United States Government 
agencies to work with European allies, including 
those in the Balkans where Iran has expanded its 
presence, to hold Iran accountable for breaching dip-
lomatic privileges, and to call on nations to prevent 
the malign activities of the Iranian regime’s diplo-
matic missions, with the goal of closing them down, 
including the Iranian Embassy in Albania; 
(3) stands with the people of Iran who are con-
tinuing to hold legitimate and peaceful protests 
against an oppressive and corrupt regime; and 
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(4) recognizes the rights of the Iranian people 
and their struggle to establish a democratic, secular, 
and nonnuclear Republic of Iran. 
Æ 
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