This resolution condemns Iranian state-sponsored terrorist attacks against U.S. citizens and officials and Iranian dissidents and expresses support for the people of Iran who are engaged in legitimate and peaceful protests against the Iranian regime.
[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 374 Introduced in House (IH)]
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116th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. RES. 374
Condemning Iranian state-sponsored terrorism and expressing support for
the Iranian people's desire for a democratic, secular, and non-nuclear
republic of Iran.
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
May 10, 2019
Mr. McClintock (for himself, Mr. Sherman, Mr. Johnson of Georgia, Mr.
Luetkemeyer, Mrs. Wagner, Mr. Hurd of Texas, Mr. Webster of Florida,
Mr. Brooks of Alabama, Mr. Cartwright, Mr. Weber of Texas, Mr. Budd,
Mr. Mooney of West Virginia, Mr. Cook, Mr. LaMalfa, Mr. Fitzpatrick,
Mr. Grothman, Mr. Diaz-Balart, Ms. Stefanik, Mr. Steube, Ms. Jackson
Lee, Mr. Wilson of South Carolina, Mr. Higgins of New York, Mr.
Sensenbrenner, Mr. Stewart, Mrs. Lesko, Mr. Clay, Mr. Riggleman, Mr.
Fleischmann, Mr. Gohmert, Mr. Crenshaw, Mr. Johnson of Ohio, Mr.
McKinley, Mr. Walker, Mr. Norman, Mrs. Hartzler, Mrs. Miller, Mr.
Peterson, Mr. Allred, and Mr. Burgess) submitted the following
resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs
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RESOLUTION
Condemning Iranian state-sponsored terrorism and expressing support for
the Iranian people's desire for a democratic, secular, and non-nuclear
republic of 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 struggle for freedom;
Whereas several prominent bipartisan former United States Government officials,
several retired United States generals, 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 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 commit murder'';
Whereas the Free Iran gathering had commenced to show support for the Iranian
opposition 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 non-nuclear Iran;
Whereas, on July 10, 2018, a senior Department of State official 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) has included the Internal
Security Division of the Iranian Ministry of Intelligence and Security
(MOIS), and two of its officials on the EU terror list in connection
with the Paris bomb plot;
Whereas the United States Government arrested two Iranian nationals in August
2018 who had acted on behalf of the 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
Department of Justice Federal complaint, may include ``apprehension,
recruitment, cyber exploitation, or capture/kill operations'';
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 expelled 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 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 official has urged ``all nations to be vigilant
about Iran using embassies as diplomatic cover to plot terrorist
attacks'';
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 fundamental freedoms for
which reason they rejected monarchic dictatorship and are opposing
religious tyranny; and
Whereas in the 115th Congress, the House of Representatives passed H.R. 4744
calling on the United States to ``condemn Iranian human rights abuses
against dissidents, including the massacre in 1988 and the suppression
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'': 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 diplomatic privileges, and to call on nations to
prevent the malign activities of the Iranian regime's
diplomatic missions, with the goal of closing them down,
including the Iranian embassy in Albania;
(3) stands with the people of Iran who are continuing to
hold legitimate and peaceful protests against an oppressive and
corrupt regime; and
(4) recognizes the rights of the Iranian people and their
struggle to establish a democratic, secular, and non-nuclear
republic of Iran.
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Introduced in House
Introduced in House
Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
Referred to the Subcommittee on Middle East, North Africa and International Terrorism.
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