119-hres176

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 176 Introduced in House

    (IH) ]

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119th CONGRESS
 1st Session
H. RES. 176

 Urging the European Union to expeditiously designate the Islamic 
 Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terrorist organization under Common 
 Position 931, and for other purposes.

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 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

 February 27, 2025

 Ms. Tenney (for herself, Mr. Schneider, Mr. Sherman, Ms. Salazar, Ms. 
Titus, Mr. Lawler, Mr. Gottheimer, Mr. Costa, Mr. Smith of New Jersey, 
 Mr. Yakym, Mr. Lieu, Mr. Auchincloss, Ms. Ross, Mr. Kean, Mr. Steube, 
 and Mr. Wilson of South Carolina) submitted the following resolution; 
 which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs

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 RESOLUTION

 Urging the European Union to expeditiously designate the Islamic 
 Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terrorist organization under Common 
 Position 931, and for other purposes.

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 maintain the Iranian regime's power;
Whereas the IRGC was designated as a Foreign Terrorist Organization by the 
 United States in 2019;
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 intelligence with terrorist 
 proxy forces throughout the Middle East and abroad, including Hezbollah, 
 Palestinian Islamic 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 kamikaze 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 support, poses a direct 
 threat to European security and sovereignty;
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 recent years;
Whereas the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, France, Denmark, and Albania have all 
 arrested or expelled Iranian Government officials implicated in 
 terrorist or assassination plots in their respective countries;
Whereas the IRGC Quds Force provides funds, weaponry, and training to Hamas, a 
 U.S.-designated Foreign Terrorist 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 target 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 considering 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 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 European Union to designate 
 the IRGC as a terrorist organization;
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 December 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 authority'' to include ``a judicial 
 authority''; and
Whereas proposals for terrorist organization designations by the European Union 
 can come from third-party countries, including the United States: Now, 
 therefore, be it
 Resolved,

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Sec. 1. 
 This resolution may be cited as the ``Encouraging the European 
Union to Determine that the European Union Should Sanction the Islamic 
Revolutionary Guard Corps Now As a Terrorist Entity Resolution'' or the 
``Encouraging the EU to DESIGNATE Resolution''.

 european union designation of irgc as a terrorist organization

 

Sec. 2. 
 The House of Representatives--

    (1) urges the European Union to expeditiously designate the 
 Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terrorist organization 
 under Common Position of December 27, 2001, on the application 
 of specific measures to combat terrorism (2001/931/CFSP);

    (2) encourages the Trump administration make European Union 
 designation of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a 
 terrorist organization a diplomatic priority in engagements 
 with the European Union; and

    (3) welcomes the efforts of the international community to 
 designate the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terrorist 
 organization.
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