IV 
119TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. RES. 176 
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 
FEBRUARY 27, 2025 
Ms. TENNEY (for herself, Mr. SCHNEIDER, Mr. SHERMAN, Ms. SALAZAR, Ms. 
TITUS, Mr. LAWLER, Mr. GOTTHEIMER, Mr. COSTA, Mr. SMITH of New 
Jersey, Mr. YAKYM, Mr. LIEU, Mr. AUCHINCLOSS, Ms. ROSS, Mr. KEAN, 
Mr. STEUBE, and Mr. WILSON of South Carolina) submitted the fol-
lowing resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Af-
fairs 
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 for more than 
45 years by Ayatollahs Khomeini and Khamenei to main-
tain the Iranian regime’s power; 
Whereas the IRGC was designated as a Foreign Terrorist 
Organization by the United States in 2019; 
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Whereas the IRGC was designated as a terrorist entity by 
Canada in 2024; 
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 suppressed widespread protests 
sparked by the death of Mahsa Amini; 
Whereas the IRGC Basij responded to these demonstrations 
with violence, arrests, and murder, including the arrest of 
journalists covering these protests; 
Whereas the IRGC trains, funds, arms, and shares intel-
ligence with terrorist proxy forces throughout the Middle 
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 provided critical support to Bashar al- 
Assad and his autocratic regime in Syria; 
Whereas the IRGC is actively supporting 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 Russian war of aggression, with Iranian sup-
port, poses a direct threat to European security and sov-
ereignty; 
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Whereas the IRGC has attempted to assassinate dissidents 
around the world, including throughout Europe and in 
the United States; 
Whereas the IRGC Quds Force is responsible for Iranian 
extraterritorial operations, and they has played a key role 
in Iranian assassinations in the Netherlands, Sweden, 
Denmark, France, Germany, Bulgaria, and Cyprus in re-
cent years; 
Whereas the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, France, Den-
mark, and Albania have all arrested or expelled Iranian 
Government officials implicated in terrorist or assassina-
tion plots in their respective countries; 
Whereas the IRGC Quds Force provides funds, weaponry, 
and training to Hamas, a U.S.-designated Foreign Ter-
rorist Organization which carried out the horrific October 
7th attacks, leading to the death and kidnapping of 
American and European citizens; 
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; 
Whereas the IRGC has plotted to assassinate President 
Doanld J. Trump; 
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 
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organization as part of its annual foreign and security 
policy report; 
Whereas the European Parliament, also in January 2023 and 
April 2024, voted overwhelmingly in favor separate Iran- 
focused resolutions that called for designating the IRGC 
as a terrorist organization; 
Whereas multiple member states have called upon the Euro-
pean Union to designate the IRGC as a terrorist organi-
zation; 
Whereas the European Union has thus far 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’’; and 
Whereas proposals for terrorist organization designations by 
the European Union can come from third-party coun-
tries, including the United States: Now, therefore, be it 
Resolved, 
SHORT TITLE 
SEC. 1. 
This resolution may be cited as the ‘‘Encouraging the 
European Union to Determine that the European Union 
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Should Sanction the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps 
Now As a Terrorist Entity Resolution’’ or the ‘‘Encour-
aging the EU to DESIGNATE Resolution’’. 
EUROPEAN UNION DESIGNATION OF IRGC AS A 
TERRORIST ORGANIZATION 
SEC. 2. 
The House of Representatives— 
(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 Trump 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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