As
mourners clashed
with police on the streets of Iran, Congress passed a resolution
condemning the government for its suppression of basic freedoms and
its long track record of human rights abuses.
The sense of the Senate resolution passed by unanimous consent late
Tuesday. It's chief sponsors included Sens. Ted Kaufman, D-DE,
Joseph Lieberman, I-CT, John McCain, R-AZ, and Carl
Levin, D-MI. The text runs down a litany of abuses perpetrated by
the Iranian regime since the June 12 elections.
The
resolution also quotes President Obama, who on Dec. 10 while
accepting the Nobel Prize, made some relevant comments:
‘‘We
will bear witness to the quiet dignity of reformers... to the hundreds
of thousands who have marched silently through the streets of Iran.
It is telling that the leaders of these governments fear the
aspirations of their own people more than the power of any other
nation. And it is the responsibility of all free people and free
nations to make clear to these movements that hope and history are on
their side.''
Read
the whole resolution here:
"There
is something happening inside Iranian society. It's hard to predict
how it will unfold," State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley
said Tuesday, "The angst that we continue to see within Iranian
society is of great concern to us, and we think that ultimately, the
Government of Iran has to change its relationship with its own people."
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