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113TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 854 
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 
FEBRUARY 27, 2013 
Mr. MCCAUL introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Com-
mittee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Foreign Af-
fairs, 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 ter-
rorist organization, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Qods Force Terrorist 
Designation Act’’. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
Congress finds the following: 
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(1) On January 19, 1984, the Secretary of 
State determined that the Islamic Republic of Iran 
is a state sponsor of terrorism. 
(2) The Qods Force is the elite external oper-
ations branch of the Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary 
Guard Corps and the Iranian regime’s primary 
mechanism for cultivating and supporting terrorists 
abroad. 
(3) The Qods Force provides aid in the form of 
weapons, training, and funding to Hamas and other 
Palestinian terrorist groups, Lebanese Hizballah, 
Iraq-based militants, and Taliban fighters in Af-
ghanistan. 
(4) The Qods Force is behind some of the dead-
liest terrorist attacks of the past three decades, in-
cluding the 1983 and 1984 bombings of the United 
States Embassy and annex in Beirut, the 1983 
bombing of the Marine barracks in Beirut, the 1992 
bombing of the Israeli embassy in Buenos Aires, 
1994 attack on the AMIA Jewish Community Cen-
ter in Buenos Aires, and the 1996 Khobar Towers 
bombing in Saudi Arabia. 
(5) In 2007, President George W. Bush and 
General David Petraeus, the top U.S. commander in 
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Iraq, accused Iran’s Qods Force of aiding militias in 
killing American soldiers in Iraq. 
(6) In 2007, the U.S. Department of the Treas-
ury designated the Qods Force for providing mate-
rial support to the Taliban and other terrorist orga-
nizations. 
(7) On October 25, 2007, Iran’s Islamic Revo-
lutionary Guard Corps Qods Force was sanctioned 
under Executive Order 13382, for supporting pro-
liferation of weapons of mass destruction. 
(8) Section 1258 of the National Defense Au-
thorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008 expressed the 
sense of Congress that ‘‘the United States should 
designate Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps 
as a foreign terrorist organization under section 219 
of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 
1189) and place the Islamic Revolutionary Guards 
Corps on the list of Specially Designated Global Ter-
rorists, as established under the International Emer-
gency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701 et 
seq.) and initiated under Executive Order 13224 
(September 23, 2001)’’. 
(9) In the period following the June 2009 presi-
dential election in Iran, the Qods Force was impli-
cated in custodial deaths and the killings of election 
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protesters and committed other acts of politically 
motivated violence, including torture, beatings, and 
rape. 
(10) On April 29, 2011, President Obama 
issued Executive Order 13572, Blocking Property of 
Certain Persons With Respect to Human Rights 
Abuses in Syria, including the Qods Force, for the 
repression of the people of Syria, manifested most 
recently by the use of violence and torture against, 
and arbitrary arrests and detentions of, peaceful 
protestors by police, security forces, and other enti-
ties that have engaged in human rights abuses, 
which constitute an unusual and extraordinary 
threat to the national security, foreign policy, and 
economy of the United States. 
(11) On October 11, 2011, the U.S. Depart-
ment of Justice announced that two members of 
Iran’s Qods Force were charged in an alleged plot 
to assassinate the Saudi Arabian Ambassador to the 
Unites States. The criminal complaint against them 
included charges of conspiracy to murder a foreign 
official; conspiracy to engage in foreign travel and 
use of interstate and foreign commerce facilities in 
the commission of murder-for-hire; conspiracy to use 
a weapon of mass destruction (explosives); and con-
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spiracy to commit an act of international terrorism 
transcending national boundaries. 
(12) On March 7, 2012, the U.S. Department 
of the Treasury designated Iran’s Qods Force Gen-
eral Gholamreza Baghbani as a Specially Designated 
Narcotics Trafficker for the role that the Qods 
Force played in its scheme to support terrorism. 
(13) Iran’s Qods Force stations operatives in 
foreign embassies, charities, and religious and cul-
tural institutions to foster relationships, often build-
ing on existing socio-economic ties with the well-es-
tablished Shia Diaspora, and recent years have wit-
nessed an increased presence in Latin America. 
SEC. 3. DESIGNATION OF IRAN’S ISLAMIC REVOLUTIONARY 
GUARD CORPS QODS FORCE AS A FOREIGN 
TERRORIST ORGANIZATION. 
The Secretary of State shall designate Iran’s Islamic 
Revolutionary Guard Corps Qods Force as a foreign ter-
rorist organization under section 219 of the Immigration 
and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1189). 
SEC. 4. REPORT. 
The Secretary of State shall submit to the Committee 
on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives and 
the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate a re-
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port on terrorist activities of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary 
Guard Corps Qods Force. 
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