rights, pro-democracy protests across all of Iran’s 31 provinces, calling for the end to Iran’s theocratic regime. (8) In the course of the protests, the Iranian security forces’ violent crackdown includes mass arrests, well documented beating of protestors, throttling of the internet and telecommunications services, and shooting protestors with live ammunition. Iranian security forces have reportedly killed hundreds of protestors and other civilians, including women and children, and wounded many more. (9) Iran’s Supreme Leader is the leader of the Axis of Resistance , which is a network of Tehran’s terror proxy and partner militias materially supported by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps that targets the United States as well as its allies and partners. (b) Sense of congress It is the sense of Congress that— (1) the United States shall stand with and support the people of Iran in their demand for fundamental human rights