REGARDING THE DESIGNATION OF IRAN'S ISLAMIC REVOLUTIONARY GUARDS CORPS AS A FOREIGN TERRORIST ORGANIZATION; Congressional Record Vol. 165, No. 65
(Extensions of Remarks - April 15, 2019)
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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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