A resolution to condemn the harmful, destructive, and anti-Semitic statements of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the President of Iran, and to demand an apology for those statements of hate and animosity towards all Jewish people of the world.

(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.)

Condemns recent statements by President Ahmadinejad of Iran that denied the occurrence of the Holocaust and supported moving the State of Israel to Europe, and demands an official apology for these anti-Semitic statements that ignore history, human suffering, and the loss of life during the Holocaust.

Reaffirms the need for Iran to: (1) end its support for international terrorism; and (2) join other Middle Eastern countries in seeking a successful outcome of the Middle East peace process.

[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. Res. 337 Agreed to Senate (ATS)]








109th CONGRESS
  1st Session
S. RES. 337

  To condemn the harmful, destructive, and anti-Semitic statements of 
 Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the President of Iran, and to demand an apology 
for those statements of hate and animosity towards all Jewish people of 
                               the world.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           December 16, 2005

 Mr. Santorum (for himself, Mr. Brownback, Ms. Mikulski, Ms. Stabenow, 
Mr. Chambliss, Mr. Nelson of Florida, Mr. Coleman, Mr. Bond, Mrs. Dole, 
 Mr. Lautenberg, Mr. Lieberman, Mr. Smith, Mr. Nelson of Nebraska, Mr. 
DeWine, Mr. Vitter, Mr. Isakson, Mr. Talent, Mr. Stevens, Mr. Martinez, 
   Mr. Voinovich, Mr. Rockefeller, Mrs. Feinstein, and Mr. Salazar) 
 submitted the following resolution; which was considered and agreed to

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                               RESOLUTION


 
  To condemn the harmful, destructive, and anti-Semitic statements of 
 Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the President of Iran, and to demand an apology 
for those statements of hate and animosity towards all Jewish people of 
                               the world.

Whereas Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the President of Iran, declared in an October 26, 
        2005, address at the World Without Zionism conference in Tehran that 
        ``the new wave that has started in Palestine, and we witness it in the 
        Islamic World too, will eliminate this disgraceful stain from the 
        Islamic World'' and that Israel ``must be wiped off the map.'';
Whereas the President of Iran told reporters on December 8th at an Islamic 
        conference in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, ``Some European countries insist on 
        saying that Hitler killed millions of innocent Jews in furnaces ... 
        although we don't accept this claim.'';
Whereas Mr. Ahmadinejad then stated, ``If the Europeans are honest they should 
        give some of their provinces in Europe ... to the Zionists, and the 
        Zionists can establish their state in Europe.'';
Whereas on December 14, 2005, Mr. Ahmadinejad said live on Iranian television, 
        ``they have invented a myth that Jews were massacred and place this 
        above God, religions and the prophets.'';
Whereas the leaders of the Islamic Republic of Iran, beginning with its founder, 
        the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, have issued statements of hate against 
        the United States, Israel, and Jewish peoples;
Whereas certain leaders, including Ahmadi Nezhad, and the Supreme Leader, Ali 
        Khamenei, have similarly called for the destruction of the United 
        States, and the Islamic Republic of Iran has funded, armed, trained, 
        assisted, and sheltered leading terrorists, including terrorists in Iraq 
        who use Iranian support to kill military personnel of the United States;
Whereas an estimated 6,000,000 Jews were killed in the Nazi Holocaust;
Whereas the remarks of President Ahmadinejad have been denounced around the 
        world and condemned by among others, the political leaders of the United 
        States, Arab nations, Israel, Europe, and the United Nations;
Whereas it is a crime in the Federal Republic of Germany to deny the existence 
        of the Holocaust; and
Whereas the United Nations, in General Assembly Resolution 181 (1947), 
        recommended the adoption of the Plan of Partition with Economic Union 
        for Palestine, which called for an independent Jewish State: Now, 
        therefore, be it
    Resolved, That the Senate--
            (1) condemns the recent statement by President Ahmadinejad 
        that denied the occurrence of the Holocaust and supported 
        moving the State of Israel to Europe;
            (2) demands an official apology for these damaging, anti-
        Semitic statements that ignore history, human suffering, and 
        the loss of life during the Holocaust; and
            (3) reaffirms the need for Iran to--
                    (A) end its support for international terrorism; 
                and
                    (B) join other Middle Eastern countries in seeking 
                a successful outcome of the Middle East peace process.
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