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119TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 4119 
To provide for the imposition of sanctions with respect to the Polisario 
Front, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JUNE 24, 2025 
Mr. WILSON of South Carolina (for himself and Mr. PANETTA) introduced the 
following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, 
and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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 con-
cerned 
A BILL 
To provide for the imposition of sanctions with respect to 
the Polisario Front, 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 ‘‘Polisario Front Ter-
rorist Designation Act’’. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
Congress finds the following: 
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(1) The Polisario Front, founded in 1973, is a 
separatist group operating primarily in Western Sa-
hara and the Tindouf region of Algeria, seeking 
independence for Western Sahara from Moroccan 
sovereignty. 
(2) The Polisario Front has a documented his-
tory of ideological and operational ties with Iran, a 
state sponsor of terrorism, dating back at least to 
1980, when Polisario fighters publicly posed with 
portraits of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in a bid to 
attract revolutionary credibility and Iranian patron-
age. 
(3) According to reporting by Jeune Afrique, 3 
Hezbollah officers served as trainers in the Tindouf 
camps in 2018. One of the named trainers, since 
killed in a November 2023 Israeli airstrike in Syria, 
had previously been sanctioned by the United States 
for orchestrating the 2007 Karbala raid in Iraq that 
killed 5 American soldiers. 
(4) Iran’s support has reportedly advanced 
from training to the provision of lethal hardware. In 
a 2022 livestream, Polisario ‘‘Interior Minister’’ 
Omar Mansour stated that his fighters were training 
on ‘‘assembling and operating armed drones’’. A 
year later, images disseminated via Polisario-con-
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trolled social media channels showed Iranian-type 
munitions, as confirmed by open-source weapons re-
searchers. 
(5) The Washington Post reported in April 
2025 that Iran has trained Polisario Front fighters 
and provided them with unmanned aerial vehicles 
(UAVs), deepening concerns about the group’s grow-
ing capabilities and external sponsorship. 
(6) The Syrian wing of the PKK, a designated 
terrorist organization, took part in the front’s meet-
ing called ‘‘Sahrawi Solidarity Summit’’ in the 
Sahrawi camps on January 4–7 2025. 
SEC. 3. REPORT. 
Not later than 180 days after the date of the enact-
ment of this Act, the Secretary of State shall submit to 
the appropriate Congressional committees a report on the 
Polisario Front to include the following: 
(1) A description of the Polisario Front’s lead-
ership, military operations, and foreign sponsorship. 
(2) A description of the Polisario Front’s rela-
tionships, support, funding, and associations with 
Iran and Russia. 
(3) A description of the Polisario Front’s rela-
tionships, support, funding and associations with 
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Foreign Terrorist Organizations Hezbollah, the 
IRGC, and the PKK. 
(4) A description and analysis of whether the 
Polisario Front has ever intentionally attacked civil-
ian targets. 
SEC. 4. DETERMINATIONS WITH RESPECT TO THE IMPOSI-
TION 
OF 
SANCTIONS 
AGAINST 
THE 
POLISARIO FRONT. 
(a) DETERMINATIONS
BY
THE
SECRETARY
OF 
STATE.—Not later than 90 days after the date of the en-
actment of this Act, the Secretary of State shall submit 
to the appropriate Congressional committees a determina-
tion, including a detailed justification, of whether the 
Polisario Front meets the criteria for— 
(1) designation as a foreign terrorist organiza-
tion under section 219 of the Immigration and Na-
tionality Act (8 U.S.C. 1189); and 
(2) imposition of sanctions under section 1263 
of the Global Magnitsky Human Rights Account-
ability Act (subtitle F of title XII of Public Law 
114–328; 22 U.S.C. 2656 note). 
(b) DETERMINATION BY THE SECRETARY OF THE 
TREASURY.—Not later than 90 days after the date of the 
enactment of this Act, the Secretary of the Treasury shall 
submit to the appropriate Congressional committees a de-
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termination, including a detailed justification, of whether 
the Polisario Front meets the criteria for the imposition 
of sanctions under Executive Order 13224 (50 U.S.C. 
1701). 
(c) FORM.—The determinations required by sub-
sections (a) and (b) shall be submitted in unclassified 
form, but may include a classified annex. 
SEC. 5. WAIVER. 
The designations and sanctions described in section 
(4) of this bill may be waived by the President if it is 
determined that the Polisario Front is engaged in good 
faith negotiations to implement the autonomy plan for the 
Western Sahara put forward by the Kingdom of Morocco 
and submitted to the UN Security Council in 2007, which 
proposes granting the Sahrawi people a high degree of 
self-governance within a framework of Moroccan sov-
ereignty. 
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