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119THCONGRESS
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STSESSION H. RES. 176
Urging the European Union to expeditiously designate the Islamic Revolu-
tionary Guard Corps as a terrorist organization under Common Position
931, and for other purposes.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
FEBRUARY27, 2025
Ms. T
ENNEY(for herself, Mr. SCHNEIDER, Mr. SHERMAN, Ms. SALAZAR, Ms.
T
ITUS, Mr. LAWLER, Mr. GOTTHEIMER, Mr. COSTA, Mr. SMITHof New
Jersey, Mr. Y
AKYM, Mr. LIEU, Mr. AUCHINCLOSS, Ms. ROSS, Mr. KEAN,
Mr. S
TEUBE, and Mr. WILSONof South Carolina) submitted the fol-
lowing resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Af-
fairs
RESOLUTION
Urging the European Union to expeditiously designate the
Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terrorist organi-
zation under Common Position 931, and for other pur-
poses.
Whereas the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and
its Basij paramilitary force have been used for more than
45 years by Ayatollahs Khomeini and Khamenei to main-
tain the Iranian regime’s power;
Whereas the IRGC was designated as a Foreign Terrorist
Organization by the United States in 2019;
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Whereas the IRGC was designated as a terrorist entity by
Canada in 2024;
Whereas the IRGC Basij have been used to quash numerous
protests and democratic uprisings in Iran, including the
Green Movement;
Whereas the IRGC Basij continue to perpetrate wide-scale
human rights abuses inside Iran, including against
women, children, and minorities;
Whereas the IRGC Basij suppressed widespread protests
sparked by the death of Mahsa Amini;
Whereas the IRGC Basij responded to these demonstrations
with violence, arrests, and murder, including the arrest of
journalists covering these protests;
Whereas the IRGC trains, funds, arms, and shares intel-
ligence with terrorist proxy forces throughout the Middle
East and abroad, including Hezbollah, Palestinian Is-
lamic Jihad (PIJ), the Houthis, and Kata’ib Hezbollah,
which have targeted civilians and both Europeans and
Americans;
Whereas the IRGC provided critical support to Bashar al-
Assad and his autocratic regime in Syria;
Whereas the IRGC is actively supporting Russian President
Vladimir Putin’s illegal war of aggression against
Ukraine through the provision of hundreds of lethal ka-
mikaze drones and overseeing plans for the construction
of a new factory in Russia with the capacity to produce
thousands of Iranian-designed drones;
Whereas the Russian war of aggression, with Iranian sup-
port, poses a direct threat to European security and sov-
ereignty;
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Whereas the IRGC has attempted to assassinate dissidents
around the world, including throughout Europe and in
the United States;
Whereas the IRGC Quds Force is responsible for Iranian
extraterritorial operations, and they has played a key role
in Iranian assassinations in the Netherlands, Sweden,
Denmark, France, Germany, Bulgaria, and Cyprus in re-
cent years;
Whereas the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, France, Den-
mark, and Albania have all arrested or expelled Iranian
Government officials implicated in terrorist or assassina-
tion plots in their respective countries;
Whereas the IRGC Quds Force provides funds, weaponry,
and training to Hamas, a U.S.-designated Foreign Ter-
rorist Organization which carried out the horrific October
7th attacks, leading to the death and kidnapping of
American and European citizens;
Whereas the IRGC engaged in a murder-for-hire plot to tar-
get former National Security Advisor John Bolton and
former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo;
Whereas the IRGC has plotted to assassinate President
Doanld J. Trump;
Whereas Iran executed British-Iranian national Alireza
Akbari and as a result the United Kingdom is consid-
ering designating the IRGC as a terrorist organization;
Whereas in response to the European Union’s consideration
of designating the IRGC a terrorist organization, IRGC
Commander Hossein Salami has threatened European
countries;
Whereas the European Parliament, in January 2023, voted
598 to 9 in favor of designating the IRGC as a terrorist
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organization as part of its annual foreign and security
policy report;
Whereas the European Parliament, also in January 2023 and
April 2024, voted overwhelmingly in favor separate Iran-
focused resolutions that called for designating the IRGC
as a terrorist organization;
Whereas multiple member states have called upon the Euro-
pean Union to designate the IRGC as a terrorist organi-
zation;
Whereas the European Union has thus far only sanctioned
individual members and leaders of the IRGC as terrorists
but have not yet designated the IRGC in its entirety;
Whereas under European Council Common Position of De-
cember 27, 2001, on the application of specific measures
to combat terrorism (2001/931/CFSP) (in this preamble
referred to as ‘‘Common Position 931’’), the European
Union can designate terrorist organizations if ‘‘a decision
has been taken by a competent authority’’ that they are
a terrorist organization;
Whereas under Council Common Position 931 on combating
terrorism, the European Union defines ‘‘competent au-
thority’’ to include ‘‘a judicial authority’’; and
Whereas proposals for terrorist organization designations by
the European Union can come from third-party coun-
tries, including the United States: Now, therefore, be it
Resolved, 1
SHORT TITLE 2
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EC. 1. 3
This resolution may be cited as the ‘‘Encouraging the 4
European Union to Determine that the European Union 5
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Should Sanction the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps 1
Now As a Terrorist Entity Resolution’’ or the ‘‘Encour-2
aging the EU to DESIGNATE Resolution’’. 3
EUROPEAN UNION DESIGNATION OF IRGC AS A 4
TERRORIST ORGANIZATION 5
S
EC. 2. 6
The House of Representatives— 7
(1) urges the European Union to expeditiously 8
designate the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as 9
a terrorist organization under Common Position of 10
December 27, 2001, on the application of specific 11
measures to combat terrorism (2001/931/CFSP); 12
(2) encourages the Trump administration make 13
European Union designation of the Islamic Revolu-14
tionary Guard Corps as a terrorist organization a 15
diplomatic priority in engagements with the Euro-16
pean Union; and 17
(3) welcomes the efforts of the international 18
community to designate the Islamic Revolutionary 19
Guard Corps as a terrorist organization. 20
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