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112TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. R. 4228 

To direct the Secretary of State to designate Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary 

Guard Corps Qods Force as a foreign terrorist organization, and for 

other purposes. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

MARCH 21, 2012 

Mr. MCCAUL (for himself and Mr. KING of New York) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and 

in addition to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such 

provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned 

A BILL 

To direct the Secretary of State to designate Iran’s Islamic 

Revolutionary Guard Corps Qods Force as a foreign terrorist organization, and for other purposes. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

3 SECTION 1. FINDINGS. 

4 Congress finds the following: 

5 (1) On January 19, 1984, the Secretary of 

6 State determined that the Islamic Republic of Iran 

7 is a state sponsor of terrorism. 


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1 (2) The Qods Force is the elite external oper2 ations branch of the Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary 

3 Guard Corps and the Iranian regime’s primary 

4 mechanism for cultivating and supporting terrorists 

5 abroad. 

6 (3) The Qods Force provides aid in the form of 

7 weapons, training, and funding to Hamas and other 

8 Palestinian terrorist groups, Lebanese Hizballah, 

9 Iraq-based militants, and Taliban fighters in Af10 ghanistan. 

11 (4) The Qods Force is behind some of the dead12 liest terrorist attacks of the past three decades, in13 cluding the 1983 and 1984 bombings of the United 

14 States Embassy and annex in Beirut, the 1983 

15 bombing of the Marine barracks in Beirut, the 1992 

16 bombing of the Israeli embassy in Buenos Aires, 

17 1994 attack on the AMIA Jewish Community Cen18 ter in Buenos Aires, and the 1996 Khobar Towers 

19 bombing in Saudi Arabia. 

20 (5) In 2007, President George W. Bush and 

21 General David Petraeus, the top U.S. commander in 

22 Iraq, accused Iran’s Qods Force of aiding militias in 

23 killing American soldiers in Iraq. 

24 (6) In 2007, the U.S. Department of the Treas25 ury designated the Qods Force for providing mateVerDate Mar 15 2010 00:53 Mar 22, 2012 Jkt 019200 PO 00000 Frm 00002 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H4228.IH H4228

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1 rial support to the Taliban and other terrorist orga2 nizations. 

3 (7) On October 25, 2007, Iran’s Islamic Revo4 lutionary Guard Corps Qods Force was sanctioned 

5 under Executive Order 13382, for supporting pro6 liferation of weapons of mass destruction. 

7 (8) Section 1258 of the National Defense Au8 thorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008 expressed the 

9 sense of Congress that ‘‘the United States should 

10 designate Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps 

11 as a foreign terrorist organization under section 219 

12 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 

13 1189) and place the Islamic Revolutionary Guards 

14 Corps on the list of Specially Designated Global Ter15 rorists, as established under the International Emer16 gency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701 et 

17 seq.) and initiated under Executive Order 13224 

18 (September 23, 2001)’’. 

19 (9) In the period following the June 2009 presi20 dential election in Iran, the Qods Force was impli21 cated in custodial deaths and the killings of election 

22 protesters and committed other acts of politically 

23 motivated violence, including torture, beatings, and 

24 rape. 


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1 (10) On April 29, 2011, President Obama 

2 issued Executive Order 13572, Blocking Property of 

3 Certain Persons With Respect to Human Rights 

4 Abuses in Syria, including the Qods Force, for the 

5 repression of the people of Syria, manifested most 

6 recently by the use of violence and torture against, 

7 and arbitrary arrests and detentions of, peaceful 

8 protestors by police, security forces, and other enti9 ties that have engaged in human rights abuses, 

10 which constitute an unusual and extraordinary 

11 threat to the national security, foreign policy, and 

12 economy of the United States. 

13 (11) On October 11, 2011, the U.S. Depart14 ment of Justice announced that two members of 

15 Iran’s Qods Force were charged in an alleged plot 

16 to assassinate the Saudi Arabian Ambassador to the 

17 Unites States. The criminal complaint against them 

18 included charges of conspiracy to murder a foreign 

19 official; conspiracy to engage in foreign travel and 

20 use of interstate and foreign commerce facilities in 

21 the commission of murder-for-hire; conspiracy to use 

22 a weapon of mass destruction (explosives); and con23 spiracy to commit an act of international terrorism 

24 transcending national boundaries. 


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1 (12) On March 7, 2012, the U.S. Department 

2 of the Treasury designated Iran’s Qods Force Gen3 eral Gholamreza Baghbani as a Specially Designated 

4 Narcotics Trafficker for the role that the Qods 

5 Force played in its scheme to support terrorism. 

6 (13) Iran’s Qods Force stations operatives in 

7 foreign embassies, charities, and religious and cul8 tural institutions to foster relationships, often build9 ing on existing socio-economic ties with the well-es10 tablished Shia Diaspora, and recent years have wit11 nessed an increased presence in Latin America. 

12 SEC. 2. DESIGNATION OF IRAN’S ISLAMIC REVOLUTIONARY 

13 GUARD CORPS QODS FORCE AS A FOREIGN 

14 TERRORIST ORGANIZATION. 

15 The Secretary of State shall designate Iran’s Islamic 

16 Revolutionary Guard Corps Qods Force as a foreign ter17 rorist organization under section 219 of the Immigration 

18 and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1189). 

19 SEC. 3. REPORT. 

20 The Secretary of State shall submit to the Committee 

21 on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives and 

22 the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate a re23 port on terrorist activities of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary 

24 Guard Corps Qods Force. 

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