; Whereas it is incumbent upon the Iranian people to determine their destiny, based on their vote, as the sole criteria for political legitimacy; Whereas the executions of as many as 30,000 political prisoners during the 1988 massacre were carried out under the fatwa by then-Supreme Leader Ruhollah Khomeini to speedily kill all political prisoners who remained loyal to the main movement in the Iranian Resistance, i.e., the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK/PMOI), with subsequent death commissions established on July 19, 1988, counting among their members the current Iranian regime’s President, Ebrahim Raisi, with the express purpose of carrying out the fatwa; Whereas the IRGC has, for over four decades, played a crucial role in internal suppression, terrorism, and regional proxy wars and has garnered designation as a terrorist entity by several nations, including the United States; Whereas the right to self-determination constitutes an inherent and inalienable right of all peoples, including the Iranian populace, forming a cornerstone of international law and duly enshrined in numerous international instruments, including the Charter of the United Nations (1945), which underscores the principles of self-determination; Whereas, according to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, it is essential, if man is not to be compelled to have recourse, as a last resort, to rebellion against tyranny and oppression, that human rights should be protected by the rule of law ; Whereas the Declaration of Independence of the United States emphasizes, whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government , and that when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security