[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 123 (Tuesday, July 18, 2023)]
[Senate]
[Pages S3027-S3028]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 863. Mr. MARSHALL submitted an amendment intended to be proposed 
by him to the bill S. 2226, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 
2024 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military 
construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, 
to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for 
other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

       At the appropriate place in title XII, insert the 
     following:

     SEC. 12__. REPORT ON IRANIAN INVOLVEMENT IN REGIONAL 
                   NARCOTICS TRADE.

       (a) Sense of Congress.--It is the sense of Congress that 
     the Middle East narcotics trade continues to evolve, 
     including through expanding volumes and routes facilitating 
     the sale, supply, or transfer of captagon and 
     methamphetamines throughout the region.
       (b) Report.--Not later than 180 days after the date of the 
     enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense, in 
     coordination with the Secretary of State and the Director of

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     National Intelligence, shall submit to the congressional 
     defense committees, the Committee on Foreign Affairs and the 
     Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence in the House of 
     Representatives, and the Committee on Foreign Relations and 
     the Select Committee on Intelligence in the Senate a report 
     on Iranian involvement in the narcotics trade in the Middle 
     East region. Such report shall include each of the following:
       (1) An assessment of any element of the Government of Iran, 
     including the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (in this 
     section referred to as the ``IRGC'') and any Iran-backed 
     group operating in Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, or Yemen, that 
     supports the sale, supply, or transfer of narcotics in the 
     Middle East region.
       (2) An assessment of the benefits accrued from the sale, 
     supply, and transfer of narcotics in the region by any 
     element of the Government of Iran, including the IRGC and any 
     Iran-backed groups operating in Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, or 
     Yemen.
       (3) An assessment of all foreign terrorist organizations to 
     or for which the IRGC, or any person owned or controlled by 
     the IRGC, provides material support in the sale, supply, 
     transfer, or production of captagon or other related 
     narcotics or precursors in the Middle East and North Africa.
       (4) An assessment of activities conducted by the IRGC in 
     Afghanistan related to the trade of methamphetamine or 
     opiates, including synthetic opiates.
       (5) A detailed account of intercepted transfers involving 
     the United States Fifth Fleet of narcotics from Iran or 
     involving Iranian nationals or persons acting, or purporting 
     to act, for or on behalf of the Government of Iran, including 
     the IRGC.
       (c) Form.--The report required under subsection (b) shall 
     be submitted in unclassified form, but may contain a 
     classified annex.
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