Polisario Front Terrorist Designation Act

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress] [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office] [H.R. 4119 Introduced in House (IH)] <DOC> 119th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 4119 To provide for the imposition of sanctions with respect to the Polisario Front, and for other purposes. _______________________________________________________________________ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES June 24, 2025 Mr. Wilson of South Carolina (for himself and Mr. Panetta) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned _______________________________________________________________________ A BILL To provide for the imposition of sanctions with respect to the Polisario Front, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. This Act may be cited as the ``Polisario Front Terrorist Designation Act''. SEC. 2. FINDINGS. Congress finds the following: (1) The Polisario Front, founded in 1973, is a separatist group operating primarily in Western Sahara and the Tindouf region of Algeria, seeking independence for Western Sahara from Moroccan sovereignty. (2) The Polisario Front has a documented history of ideological and operational ties with Iran, a state sponsor of terrorism, dating back at least to 1980, when Polisario fighters publicly posed with portraits of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in a bid to attract revolutionary credibility and Iranian patronage. (3) According to reporting by Jeune Afrique, 3 Hezbollah officers served as trainers in the Tindouf camps in 2018. One of the named trainers, since killed in a November 2023 Israeli airstrike in Syria, had previously been sanctioned by the United States for orchestrating the 2007 Karbala raid