[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 65 (Monday, April 15, 2019)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages E468-E469]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




REGARDING THE DESIGNATION OF IRAN'S ISLAMIC REVOLUTIONARY GUARDS CORPS 
                  AS A FOREIGN TERRORIST ORGANIZATION

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                          HON. TOM McCLINTOCK

                             of california

                    in the house of representatives

                         Monday, April 15, 2019

  Mr. McCLINTOCK. Madam Speaker, I include in the Record the following 
release which includes the statement by Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, the 
President-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, 
regarding the designation of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps 
(IRGC) as a Foreign Terrorist Organization.
  Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, the President-elect of the National Council of 
Resistance of Iran, described the inclusion of the suppressive 
Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) in the State Department's list of Foreign 
Terrorist Organizations (FTO) as a long-standing and rightful demand of 
the Iranian Resistance, an imperative for Middle East security, peace, 
and stability, and an urgent and necessary step to end war and 
terrorism throughout the region and the world.
  ``This action, which was long overdue, should now be completed by 
designating the Iranian regime's Ministry of Intelligence and Security 
(MOIS),'' Mrs. Rajavi added.
  The Revolutionary Guard Corps, which does not even carry Iran in its 
official name, constitutes the pillar of the velayat-e faqih regime

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(absolute clerical rule), is the main apparatus of repression, the 
primary driver of war and export of terrorism, and responsible for 
pursuing nuclear weapons and missile projects. The IRGC also controls 
the lion's share of Iran's economy.
  It is no wonder that the religious fascism ruling Iran, its 
apologists and mercenaries have become terrified of IRGC 's 
designation.
  Mrs. Rajavi emphasized that if the disastrous policy of appeasement 
had not provided so much freedom of action to the mullahs and the 
Revolutionary Guards over the past decades, the Iranian regime could 
not have caused so much bloodshed in Iraq, Syria. Lebanon, Yemen and 
Afghanistan.
  She emphasized that in the interest of the Iranian people as well as 
regional peace and security, the European Union must designate the 
Revolutionary Guards as a terrorist entity, adding that the ultimate 
solution to rid the world of the ruling theocracy in Iran is for the 
Iranian people and the Resistance to change the illegitimate caliphate, 
cloaked under the veneer of Shia and Islam.
  On behalf of the Iranian Resistance which has called for an arms and 
oil embargo on Iran's religious dictatorship since 1981, Mrs. Rajavi 
reiterated the need to take the following measures:
  1. Recognizing the right of the Iranian people and the Resistance to 
overthrow the ruling religious fascism and to establish freedom.
  2. Placing the Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS) and other 
organs of suppression and export of terrorism and fundamentalism on 
State Department's FTO list as well as on the EU's terror watch list.
  3. Expelling the agents of the MOIS and the terrorist Quds Force from 
the United States and Europe.
  4. Referring the dossier on the Iranian regime's human rights 
violations and the massacre of political prisoners to the United 
Nations Security Council and the International Court of Justice.
  5. Expelling the illegitimate clerical regime from the UN and 
recognizing the Iranian Resistance as the true representative of the 
Iranian people.
  6. Evicting the Iranian regime and its forces from Syria, Iraq, 
Yemen, Lebanon and Afghanistan.

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