S.Amdt. 863

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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