I 
111TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 2375 
To require the application of sanctions against affiliates of the Iran 
Revolutionary Guard Corps, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MAY 12, 2009 
Mr. SHERMAN (for himself, Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN, Mr. KLEIN of Florida, Mr. 
BURTON of Indiana, and Mr. KIRK) introduced the following bill; which 
was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the 
Committees on the Judiciary, Oversight and Government Reform, and 
Ways and Means, 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 require the application of sanctions against affiliates of 
the Iran Revolutionary Guard Corps, 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 ‘‘Iran Revolutionary 
Guard Corps Designation Implementation Act’’. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
Congress finds the following: 
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(1) The Iran Revolutionary Guard Corps 
(IRGC) is a political and ideological military organi-
zation of Iran’s government, separate from the Ira-
nian military. It globally spreads Iran’s ideology to 
terrorist groups and began deploying fighters abroad 
during the Iran-Iraq War in an effort to spread the 
ideology of the Iranian Revolution throughout the 
Middle East. 
(2) The Qods Force, a paramilitary arm of the 
IRGC, was created to conduct foreign operations— 
beginning in Iraq’s Kurdish region—and to forge re-
lationships with Shiite and Kurdish groups. A Qods 
unit was also deployed to Lebanon in 1982, where 
it helped to form Hizballah. 
(3) The IRGC was designated as an entity of 
proliferation concern under Executive Order 13382 
on October 21, 2007, and the Qods Force was des-
ignated as a terrorism supporting entity under Exec-
utive Order 13224 on October 25, 2007. 
(4) To further the support of terrorism abroad, 
Iran’s government allows the IRGC to raise funds 
and own businesses. The IRGC often operates 
through front businesses and affiliate groups. 
(5) The IRGC and Qods Force front businesses 
and affiliate groups represent an important part of 
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the Iranian economy. The National Iranian Gas 
Company issued one such firm, Khatam-ol-Anbia 
(Ghorb), a $1.3 billion contract to construct Iran’s 
seventh gas pipeline. In June 2006, Pars Oil and 
Gas Company, a subsidiary of the state-owned Na-
tional Iranian Oil Company, awarded Ghorb a $2.3 
billion contract to develop Phases 15-16 of Iran’s 
South Pars development—the world’s second largest 
gas field. In July 2006, Tehran Urban & Suburban 
Railway Company granted Ghorb a $1.2 billion con-
tract to build the seventh line of Tehran’s metro sys-
tem and a $350 million civil engineering contract for 
the fourth line. 
(6) In 2008, IRGC naval ships aggressively ap-
proached the USS Port Royal, USS Hopper, and 
USS Ingraham, during a routine transit at the 
Strait of Hormuz. 
(7) Members of the IRGC captured 15 British 
sailors and marines who were inspecting ships in the 
Persian Gulf near the demarcation line that sepa-
rates the territorial waters of Iran and Iraq. 
(8) In December 2006 and January 2007, Ira-
nian surrogates—the Qazali and Sheibani networks, 
which are now collectively referred to as the Special 
Groups—stepped up their attacks on Iraqi and Coa-
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lition forces. The Qazali network conducted sophisti-
cated operations against United States forces at the 
Karbala Joint Provincial Coordination Center, kid-
napping and killing five United States soldiers dur-
ing the aborted operation. 
(9) The Qods Force has provided aid in the 
form of weapons, training, and funding to Hamas, 
Palestine Islamic Jihad, the Popular Front for the 
Liberation 
of 
Palestine-General 
Command, 
Hizballah, Iraq-based militants, and Taliban fighters 
in Afghanistan. 
(10) The United States military reported in 
February 2007 that the Qods Force was furnishing 
assistance to Shiite militias in Iraq to assemble im-
provised explosive devices (IEDs) and explosively 
formed projectiles (EFPs) that had been used to kill 
over 150 United States service personnel. 
(11) United States commanders in Afghani-
stan—along with the Department of State’s Report 
on International Terrorism for 2007 and 2008— 
have cited specific weapons shipments by Iran, im-
plemented by the Qods Force, to Taliban militants 
in Afghanistan. The Qods Force provided training to 
the Taliban on small unit tactics, small arms, explo-
sives, and indirect fire weapons. Since at least 2006, 
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Iran has arranged arms shipments including small 
arms and associated ammunition, rocket propelled 
grenades, mortar rounds, 107-mm rockets, and plas-
tic explosives to select Taliban members. 
SEC. 3. SANCTIONS AGAINST AFFILIATES OF THE IRAN 
REVOLUTIONARY GUARD CORPS. 
(a) PUBLICATION OF NAMES OF AFFILIATES IN FED-
ERAL REGISTER.—Not later than 90 days after the date 
of the enactment of this Act, and as appropriate there-
after, the President shall publish in the Federal Register 
the name of each foreign person or foreign entity for which 
there is credible information indicating that the person or 
entity is as an agent, alias, front, instrumentality, official, 
or affiliate of the Iran Revolutionary Guard Corps or is 
an individual serving as a representative of the Iran Revo-
lutionary Guard Corps. 
(b) APPLICATION OF EXISTING SANCTIONS AGAINST 
IRAN TO AFFILIATES.—The President shall apply to each 
foreign person or foreign entity identified in the Federal 
Register pursuant to subsection (a) all applicable sanc-
tions of the United States in force against the Iran Revo-
lutionary Guard Corps as of the date of publication of the 
name of the person or entity in the Federal Register, in-
cluding measures contained in the following Executive or-
ders: 
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(1) Executive Order 13224 (66 Fed. Reg. 
49079; relating to blocking property and prohibiting 
transactions with persons who commit, threaten to 
commit, or support terrorism). 
(2) Executive Order 13382 (70 Fed. Reg. 
38567; relating to blocking property of weapons of 
mass destruction proliferators and their supporters). 
(c) SANCTIONS UNDER EXECUTIVE ORDER 13438.— 
(1) PUBLICATION OF NAMES OF AFFILIATES IN 
FEDERAL REGISTER.—Not later than 90 days after 
the date of the enactment of this Act, and as appro-
priate thereafter, the President shall publish in the 
Federal Register the name of each foreign person or 
foreign entity— 
(A) for which there is credible information 
indicating that the person or entity is as an 
agent, alias, front, instrumentality, official, or 
affiliate of the Iran Revolutionary Guard Corps 
or is an individual serving as a representative 
of the Iran Revolutionary Guard Corps; and 
(B) for which there is credible evidence 
that the foreign person or foreign entity— 
(i) has committed, or poses a signifi-
cant risk of committing, an act or acts of 
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violence that have the purpose or effect 
of— 
(I) threatening the peace or sta-
bility of Iraq or the Government of 
Iraq; or 
(II) undermining efforts to pro-
mote economic reconstruction and po-
litical reform in Iraq or to provide hu-
manitarian assistance to the Iraqi 
people; 
(ii) has materially assisted, sponsored, 
or provided financial, material, logistical, 
or technical support for, or goods or serv-
ices in support of, such an act or acts of 
violence or any person whose property and 
interests in property are blocked pursuant 
to Executive Order 13438; or 
(iii) is owned or controlled by, or has 
acted or purported to act for or on behalf 
of, directly or indirectly, any person whose 
property and interests in property are 
blocked pursuant to Executive Order 
13438. 
(2) APPLICATION OF SANCTIONS UNDER EXEC-
UTIVE ORDER 13438.—The President shall apply to 
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each foreign person or foreign entity identified in the 
Federal Register pursuant to paragraph (1) all ap-
plicable sanctions and measures of the United States 
contained in Executive Order 13438 (72 Fed. Reg. 
39719; relating to blocking property of certain per-
sons who threaten stabilization efforts in Iraq). 
(d) EXCLUSION FROM UNITED STATES.—The Sec-
retary of State shall deny a visa to, and the Secretary of 
Homeland Security shall exclude from the United States, 
any alien who, on or after the date of the enactment of 
this Act, is a foreign person identified in the Federal Reg-
ister pursuant to subsection (a) or (c). 
(e) RULE OF CONSTRUCTION.—Nothing in this sec-
tion shall be construed to remove any sanction of the 
United States in force against the Iran Revolutionary 
Guard Corps as of the date of the enactment of this Act 
by reason of the fact that the Iran Revolutionary Guard 
Corps is an entity of the Government of Iran. 
SEC. 4. MEASURES AGAINST FOREIGN PERSONS OR ENTI-
TIES 
SUPPORTING 
THE 
IRAN 
REVOLU-
TIONARY GUARD CORPS. 
(a) NOTIFICATION.—Whenever the President deter-
mines that there is credible information indicating that a 
foreign person or foreign entity, on or after the date of 
the enactment of this Act, knowingly— 
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(1) provided material support to the Iran Revo-
lutionary Guard Corps or any affiliated foreign per-
son or foreign entity identified pursuant to section 
3 (a) or (c), or 
(2) conducted any commercial transaction or fi-
nancial transaction with the Iran Revolutionary 
Guards Corps or any affiliated foreign person or for-
eign entity identified pursuant to section 3 (a) or 
(c), 
the President shall submit to the appropriate congres-
sional committees a notification that contains the name 
of the foreign person or foreign entity (as the case may 
be). 
(b) FORM.—The President may submit the notifica-
tion required under subsection (a) in classified form. 
(c) EXECUTIVE ORDER 12938 SANCTIONS.—Not 
later than 60 days after the date on which the President 
provides notice to the appropriate congressional commit-
tees pursuant to subsection (a), the President shall apply 
to each foreign person or foreign entity identified in such 
notice, for such time as the President may determine, the 
measures set forth in section 4 of Executive Order 12938 
(59 Fed. Reg. 59099; relating to proliferation of weapons 
of mass destruction) and shall terminate such measures 
in accordance with the provisions of such section. 
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