1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Iran Terror-Free Skies Act of 2017 . 2. Findings Congress finds the following: (1) Iran is designated as the world’s foremost state sponsor of terrorism and a direct threat to the national security of the United States and United States allies. (2) Iran, through its Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (in this section referred to as the IRGC ), provides material and financial support to foreign terrorist organizations, including Hamas, Hezbollah, and Kata’ib Hezbollah, as well as to the regime of Bashar al-Assad in Syria, which is responsible for more than 400,000 civilian deaths. (3) Iran has systematically employed its national air carrier, Iran Air, as well as numerous private and publicly owned Iranian and Syrian air carriers, including Mahan Air, to ferry weapons, troops, and military equipment on behalf of the IRGC and Iran’s Ministry of Defense and Armed Forces Logistics (in this section referred to as MODAFL ) to foreign terrorist organizations and rogue regimes around the world. (4) On June 23, 2011, the United States Department of the Treasury designated Iran Air for the imposition of sanctions pursuant to Executive Order 13382 ( 50 U.S.C. 1701 note