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Week Ending October 28, 2005

 

H.RES.523 Condemning Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's threats against Israel.

 

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BRIEF

  The President of the Islamic Republic of Iran declared on October 26, 2005 that “Israel must be wiped off the map.” He continued to describe Israel as a “disgraceful blot (on) the face of the Islamic world”, the Resolution preamble said.

   Further, the preamble reported, the President of Iran’s Expediency Council threatened Israel with nuclear attack and added that the Islamic world will one day have the nuclear capability that Israel has and can then accomplish that goal.\

   The Resolution calls the statements outrageous and despicable and insists that they be repudiated. the Resolution calls on civilized nations and the UN to take an equal stance against the statements and reaffirms the US commitment to protect and defend Israel.

 

 

Sponsor: Representative Henry J. Hyde (R-IL-6th)

Vote: Passed House 383 to 0, 1 voting ‘Present’ October 27, 2005 (RC 556)

Cost to the taxpayers: No discernible cost.

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Whereas on October 26, 2005, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, President of the Islamic Republic of Iran, declared that `Israel must be wiped off the map', described Israel as `a disgraceful blot [on] the face of the Islamic world', and declared that `[a]nybody who recognizes Israel will burn in the fire of the Islamic nation's fury';

Whereas Iran funds, trains, and openly supports terrorist groups that are determined to destroy Israel;

Whereas on December 14, 2001, the President of Iran's highly influential Expediency Council, Ali Akbar Hashemi-Rafsanjani, threatened Israel with nuclear attack, saying, `[i]f one day, the Islamic world is also equipped with weapons like those that Israel possesses now, then the imperialists' strategy will reach a standstill because the use of even one nuclear bomb inside Israel will destroy everything [in Israel], while it will merely harm the Islamic world';

Whereas Iran has aggressively pursued a clandestine effort to arm itself with nuclear weapons; and

Whereas the longstanding policy of the Iranian regime aimed at destroying the democratic state of Israel, highlighted by statements such as those by Ahmadinejad and Rafsanjani, underscores the danger of an Iran armed with nuclear weapons: Now, therefore, be it

Resolved, That the House of Representatives--

(1) condemns, in the strongest terms, Ahmadinejad's outrageous and despicable threats and demands that he repudiate them;

(2) calls on the United Nations Security Council and all civilized nations to condemn and reject these statements and to censure Iran for its statements and for its policies aimed at destroying Israel;

(3) further calls on the United Nations Security Council and all civilized nations to consider measures to deny Iran the means to carry out its threats and to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons; and

(4) reaffirms the unwavering alliance between the United States and Israel and reasserts the commitment of the United States to defend the right of Israel to exist as a free and democratic state.

 

 

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