Whereas in 1982, 1984, 1988, 1990, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1996, 2000, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2020, 2021 and 2022, Congress declared that it deplored the religious persecution by the Government of Iran of the Baha’i community and would hold the Government of Iran responsible for upholding the rights of all Iranian nationals, including members of the Baha’i faith; Whereas, since 1979, Iranian authorities have killed or executed more than 200 Baha’i leaders, and more than 10,000 Baha’is have been dismissed from government and university jobs; Whereas June 18, 2023, marks the 40th anniversary of the execution of 10 Baha’i women by the Iranian Government each witnessing the hanging of those hanged before her in a final failed attempt to induce abandonment of their faith after over 6 months of imprisonment and violent abuse, with the youngest only 17 years old; Whereas, on December 15, 2022, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution (A/C.3/77/L.34) criticizing Iran for human rights abuses and calling on Iran to carry out wide-ranging reforms, including— (1) to end its continuing disregard for protections under Iranian law or internationally recognized safeguards relating to the imposition of the death penalty and to commute the sentences for child offenders on death row ; (2) to ensure, in law and in practice, that no one is subjected to torture or other cruel, inhumane or degrading treatment ; (3) to cease the widespread and systematic use of arbitrary arrests and detention ; (4) to release persons detained for the exercise of their human rights and fundamental freedoms ; (5) to address the poor conditions of prisons ; (6) to eliminate, in law and in practice, all forms of systemic discrimination and other human rights violations against women and girls