[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 72 (Monday, April 15, 2019)]
[Notices]
[Page 15278]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2019-07415]



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DEPARTMENT OF STATE

[Public Notice: 10735]


In the Matter of the Designation of the Islamic Revolutionary 
Guard Corps (and Other Aliases) as a Foreign Terrorist Organization

    Based upon a review of the Administrative Record assembled in this 
matter, and in consultation with the Attorney General and the Secretary 
of the Treasury, I conclude that there is a sufficient factual basis to 
find that the relevant circumstances described in section 219 of the 
Immigration and Nationality Act, as amended (hereinafter ``INA'') (8 
U.S.C. 1189), exist with respect to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard 
Corps, also known as IRGC; Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps; Islamic 
Revolution Guards Corps; Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps; Islamic 
Revolutionary Corps; IRG; The Iranian Revolutionary Guards; Islamic 
Revolutionary Guards; Iran's Revolutionary Guards; Revolutionary 
Guards; Revolutionary Guard; Army of the Guardians of the Islamic 
Revolution; The Army of the Guardians of the Islamic Revolution; AGIR; 
Pasdaran; Pasdaran-e Inqilab; Pasdarn-e Enghelab-e Islami; Sepah; Sepah 
Pasdaran; Sepah-e Pasdaran-e Enghelab-e Eslami; Sepah-e Pasdaran 
Enghelab Islami; Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-Qods Force; IRGC-
Quds Force; IRGC-QF; Qods Force; Sepah-e Qods; Jerusalem Force; Al 
Qods; Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC)-Qods Force; Pasdaran-e 
Enghelab-e Islami (Pasdaran); Sepah-e Qods (Jerusalem Force); Qods 
(Jerusalem) Force of the IRGC; Quds Force; IRGC Ground Forces; Islamic 
Revolution Guards Corps Ground Force; Basij; Baseej; Basij-e Melli; 
Islamic Revolution Guards Corps Resistance Force; Basij Resistance 
Forces; Mobilization of the Oppressed; Mobilization of the Oppressed 
Unit; Mobilization of the Oppressed Organization; Organization of the 
Mobilisation of the Oppressed; Sazman Basij Melli; Sazman-e Moghavemat-
e Basij; Sazeman-e Basij-e Mostazafan; Vahed-e Basij-e Mostazafeen; 
Vahed-e Basij Mostaza'feen; National Mobilization Organization; 
National Resistance Mobilization; Resistance Mobilization Force; 
Nirooye Moghavemate Basij; Niruyeh Moghavemat Basij; IRGC Air Force; 
Islamic Revolution Guards Corps Air Force; Islamic Revolutionary Guards 
Corps Air Force; Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Air Force; IRGCAF; 
Sepah Pasdaran Air Force; Air Force, IRGC (Pasdaran); Islamic 
Revolutionary Guards Corps Aerospace Force; Aerospace Force of the Army 
of the Guardians of the Islamic Revolution; AFAGIR; Aerospace Division 
of IRGC; IRGC Aerospace Force; IRGCASF; IRGC Navy; Islamic Revolution 
Guards Corps Naval Force.
    Therefore, I hereby designate the aforementioned organization and 
its aliases as a foreign terrorist organization pursuant to section 219 
of the INA.
    This determination shall be published in the Federal Register.

    Dated: April 8, 2019.
Michael R. Pompeo,
Secretary of State.
[FR Doc. 2019-07415 Filed 4-12-19; 8:45 am]
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