IV 
118TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. RES. 288 
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 
APRIL 13, 2023 
Ms. TENNEY (for herself, Ms. PORTER, Mr. KEAN of New Jersey, Mr. 
SCHNEIDER, Mr. FITZPATRICK, Mr. GOTTHEIMER, Mr. NORMAN, Mrs. 
MCBATH, Mr. NUNN of Iowa, Ms. BROWNLEY, Mrs. BOEBERT, Mr. 
MOSKOWITZ, Ms. MACE, Ms. BARRAGA´N, Ms. SALAZAR, Ms. MANNING, 
Mr. LAWLER, Ms. TITUS, Mr. MAST, Mr. TRONE, Mr. WILSON of South 
Carolina, Mr. KILMER, Mr. LEVIN, Mrs. LEE of Nevada, and Mr. RYAN) 
submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee 
on Foreign Affairs 
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 by Ayatollahs 
Khomeini and Khamenei to maintain the Iranian re-
gime’s power; 
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•HRES 288 IH 
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 are actively suppressing the ongoing 
protests sparked by the death of Mahsa Amini and calls 
for the regime to be toppled; 
Whereas the IRGC Basij are responding to these demonstra-
tions with violence, arrests, and murder, including the ar-
rest of journalists covering these protests; 
Whereas the IRGC trains, funds, arms, and shares intel-
ligence with dangerous proxy forces throughout the Mid-
dle 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 continues to provide critical support to 
Bashar al-Assad and his autocratic regime in Syria; 
Whereas the IRGC is actively fueling 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 Iranian-assisted Russian war of aggression poses 
a direct threat to European security and sovereignty; 
Whereas the IRGC has targeted dissidents around the world, 
including throughout Europe; 
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•HRES 288 IH 
Whereas the IRGC Quds Force is responsible for Iranian 
extraterritorial operations, and they likely played a key 
role in Iranian assassinations in the Netherlands, Swe-
den, Denmark, France, Germany, Bulgaria, and Cyprus 
in recent years; 
Whereas the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, France, Den-
mark, and Albania have all either arrested or expelled 
Iranian Government officials implicated in terrorist or as-
sassination plots in their respective countries; 
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 for their efforts 
targeting the IRGC and killing IRGC-Quds Force Com-
mander Qasem Soleimani; 
Whereas the IRGC was designated as a Foreign Terrorist 
Organization by the United States in 2019; 
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 
organization as part of its annual foreign and security 
policy report; 
Whereas the European Parliament also in January 2023 
voted overwhelmingly in favor separate Iran-focused reso-
lution that called for designating the IRGC as a terrorist 
organization; 
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•HRES 288 IH 
Whereas thus far the European Union has 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’’; 
Whereas proposals for terrorist organization designations by 
the European Union can come from third-party coun-
tries, including the United States; and 
Whereas previous Department of Justice investigations and 
convictions provide the European Union sufficient proof 
under Common Position 931: Now, therefore, be it 
Resolved, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This resolution may be cited as the ‘‘Encouraging the 
European Union to Determine that the European Union 
Should Sanction the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps 
Now As a Terrorist Entity Resolution’’ or the ‘‘Encour-
aging the EU to DESIGNATE Resolution’’. 
SEC. 2. EUROPEAN UNION DESIGNATION OF IRGC AS A 
TERRORIST ORGANIZATION. 
The House of Representatives— 
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•HRES 288 IH 
(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 Biden administration make 
European Union designation of the Islamic Revolu-
tionary Guard Corps as a terrorist organization a 
diplomatic priority in engagements with the Euro-
pean 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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