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Calendar No. 373
118THCONGRESS
2
DSESSION S. 2626
To impose sanctions with respect to the Supreme Leader of Iran and the
President of Iran and their respective offices for human rights abuses
and support for terrorism.
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
JULY27, 2023
Mr. R
UBIO(for himself, Mr. PADILLA, Mr. RISCH, Mr. KAINE, Mr.
B
LUMENTHAL, Mr. BRAUN, Ms. COLLINS, Ms. ROSEN, Mr. HAGERTY,
Mr. B
ENNET, Ms. BUTLER, Mr. RICKETTS, Mr. HICKENLOOPER, Ms.
B
ALDWIN, and Mr. LANKFORD) introduced the following bill; which was
read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations
M
AY7, 2024
Reported by Mr. C
ARDIN, with an amendment
[Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the part printed in italic]
A BILL
To impose sanctions with respect to the Supreme Leader
of Iran and the President of Iran and their respective
offices for human rights abuses and support for ter-
rorism.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2
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SECTION1.SHORTTITLE. 1
ThisActmaybecitedasthe‘‘MahsaAminiHuman 2
rightsandSecurityAccountabilityAct’’orthe‘‘MAHSA 3
Act’’. 4
SEC.2.IMPOSITION OFSANCTIONS WITHRESPECT TOTHE 5
OFFICES OFTHESUPREME LEADER AND 6
PRESIDENT OFIRANANDAFFILIATED PER-7
SONS. 8
(a)INGENERAL.— 9
(1)DETERMINATION AND REPORT RE-10
QUIRED.—Notlaterthan90daysafterthedateof 11
theenactmentofthisAct,andannuallythereafter, 12
thePresidentshall— 13
(A)determinewhethereachforeignperson 14
describedinsubsection(b)meetsthecriteria 15
forimpositionofsanctionsunderoneormore 16
ofthesanctionsprogramsandauthoritieslisted 17
inparagraph(2); 18
(B)imposeapplicablesanctionswithre-19
specttoanyforeignpersondeterminedtomeet 20
thecriteriaforimpositionofsanctionspursuant 21
tosubparagraph(A)underthesanctionspro-22
gramsandauthoritieslistedinsubparagraph 23
(A)or(F)ofparagraph(2); 24
(C)pursueapplicablesanctionswithre-25
specttoanyforeignpersondeterminedtomeet 26
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thecriteriaforimpositionofsanctionspursuant 1
tosubparagraph(A)underthesanctionspro-2
gramsandauthoritieslistedinsubparagraph 3
(B),(C),(D),or(E)ofparagraph(2);and 4
(D)submittotheappropriatecongres-5
sionalcommitteesareportcontaining— 6
(i)alistofallforeignpersonsde-7
scribedinsubsection(b)thatmeetthecri-8
teriaforimpositionofsanctionsunderone 9
ormoreofthesanctionsprogramsandau-10
thoritieslistedinparagraph(2);and 11
(ii)foreachforeignpersonidentified 12
pursuanttoclause(i)— 13
(I)alistofeachsanctionspro-14
gramorauthoritylistedinparagraph 15
(2)forwhichthepersonmeetsthe 16
criteriaforimpositionofsanctions; 17
(II)astatementofwhich,ifany, 18
ofthesanctionsauthorizedbyanyof 19
thesanctionsprogramsandauthori-20
tiesidentifiedpursuanttosubclause 21
(I)havebeenimposedorwillbeim-22
posedwithin30daysofthesubmis-23
sionofthereport;and 24
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(III)withrespecttowhichanyof 1
thesanctionsauthorizedbyanyofthe 2
sanctionsprogramsandauthorities 3
identifiedpursuanttosubclause(I) 4
havenotbeenimposedandwillnotbe 5
imposedwithin30daysofthesubmis-6
sionofthereport— 7
(aa)thespecificauthority 8
underwhichotherwiseapplicable 9
sanctionsarebeingwaived,have 10
otherwisebeendeterminednotto 11
apply,orarenotbeingimposed; 12
and 13
(bb)acompletejustification 14
ofthedecisiontowaiveorother-15
wisenotapplythesanctionsau-16
thorizedbysuchsanctionspro-17
gramsandauthorities. 18
(2)SANCTIONSPROGRAMS ANDAUTHORITIES 19
LISTED.—Thesanctionsprogramsandauthorities 20
listedinthisparagrapharesanctionsprogramsand 21
authoritiespursuanttothefollowing: 22
(A)Section105(c)oftheComprehensive 23
IranSanctions,Accountability,andDivestment 24
Actof2010(22U.S.C.8514(c)). 25
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(B)ExecutiveOrder13553(50U.S.C. 1
1701note;relatingtoblockingpropertyofcer-2
tainpersonswithrespecttoserioushuman 3
rightsabusesbytheGovernmentofIran). 4
(C)ExecutiveOrder13224(50U.S.C. 5
1701note;relatingtoblockingpropertyand 6
prohibitingtransactionswithpersonswhocom-7
mit,threatentocommit,orsupportterrorism). 8
(D)ExecutiveOrder13818(50U.S.C. 9
1701note;relatingtoblockingthepropertyof 10
personsinvolvedinserioushumanrightsabuse 11
orcorruption). 12
(E)ExecutiveOrder13876(50U.S.C. 13
1701note;relatingtoimposingsanctionswith 14
respecttoIran). 15
(F)Section7031(c)oftheDepartmentof 16
State,ForeignOperations,andRelatedPro-17
gramsAppropriationsAct,2023(divisionKof 18
PublicLaw117–328). 19
(3)FORMOFREPORT.—Thereportrequiredby 20
paragraph(1)(D)shallbesubmittedinanunclassi-21
fiedformbutmaycontainaclassifiedannexpro-22
videdseparatelycontainingadditionalcontextualin-23
formationpertainingtojustificationfortheissuance 24
ofanywaiverissued,asdescribedinparagraph 25
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(1)(D)(ii).Theunclassifiedportionofsuchreport 1
shallbemadeavailableonapubliclyavailableinter-2
netwebsiteoftheFederalGovernment. 3
(b)FOREIGNPERSONSDESCRIBED.—Theforeign 4
personsdescribedinthissubsectionarethefollowing: 5
(1)TheSupremeLeaderofIranandanyoffi-6
cialintheOfficeoftheSupremeLeaderofIran. 7
(2)ThePresidentofIranandanyofficialin 8
theOfficeofthePresidentofIranorthePresident’s 9
cabinet,includingcabinetministersandexecutive 10
vicepresidents. 11
(3)Anyentity,includingfoundationsandeco-12
nomicconglomerates,overseenbytheOfficeofthe 13
SupremeLeaderofIranthatiscomplicitinfinanc-14
ingorresourcingofhumanrightsabusesorsupport 15
forterrorism. 16
(4)Anyofficialofanyentityownedorcon-17
trolledbytheSupremeLeaderofIranortheOffice 18
oftheSupremeLeaderofIran. 19
(5)AnypersondeterminedbythePresident— 20
(A)tobeapersonappointedbytheSu-21
premeLeaderofIran,theOfficeoftheSu-22
premeLeaderofIran,thePresidentofIran,or 23
theOfficeofthePresidentofIrantoaposition 24
asastateofficialofIran,orastheheadofany 25
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entitylocatedinIranoranyentitylocatedout-1
sideofIranthatisownedorcontrolledbyone 2
ormoreentitiesinIran; 3
(B)tohavemateriallyassisted,sponsored, 4
orprovidedfinancial,material,ortechnological 5
supportfor,orgoodsorservicestoorinsup-6
portof,anypersonthepropertyandinterests 7
inpropertyofwhichareblockedpursuantto 8
anysanctionsprogramorauthoritylistedin 9
subsection(a)(2); 10
(C)tobeownedorcontrolledby,orto 11
haveactedorpurportedtoactfororonbehalf 12
of,directlyorindirectly,anypersontheprop-13
ertyandinterestsinpropertyofwhichare 14
blockedpursuanttoanysanctionsprogramor 15
authoritylistedinsubsection(a)(2);or 16
(D)tobeamemberoftheboardofdirec-17
torsoraseniorexecutiveofficerofanyentity 18
thepropertyandinterestsinpropertyofwhich 19
areblockedpursuanttoanysanctionsprogram 20
orauthoritylistedinsubsection(a)(2). 21
(c)CONGRESSIONALOVERSIGHT.— 22
(1)INGENERAL.—Notlaterthan60daysafter 23
receivingarequestfromthechairmanandranking 24
memberofoneoftheappropriatecongressionalcom-25
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mitteeswithrespecttowhetheraforeignperson 1
meetsthecriteriaofapersondescribedinsub-2
section(b)(5),thePresidentshall— 3
(A)determineifthepersonmeetssuchcri-4
teria;and 5
(B)submitanunclassifiedreport,witha 6
classifiedannexprovidedseparatelyifneeded, 7
tosuchchairmanandrankingmemberwithre-8
specttosuchdeterminationthatincludesa 9
statementofwhetherornotthePresidentim-10
posedorintendstoimposesanctionswithre-11
specttothepersonpursuanttoanysanctions 12
programorauthoritylistedinsubsection(a)(2). 13
(2)APPROPRIATE CONGRESSIONAL COMMIT-14
TEESDEFINED.—Inthissubsection,theterm‘‘ap-15
propriatecongressionalcommittees’’means— 16
(A)theCommitteeonForeignRelationsof 17
theSenate;and 18
(B)theCommitteeonForeignAffairsof 19
theHouseofRepresentatives. 20
SEC.3.SEVERABILITY. 21
IfanyprovisionofthisAct,ortheapplicationofsuch 22
provisiontoanypersonorcircumstance,isfoundtobe 23
unconstitutional,theremainderofthisAct,ortheapplica-24
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tionofthatprovisiontootherpersonsorcircumstances, 1
shallnotbeaffected. 2
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Mahsa Amini Human 4
rights and Security Accountability Act’’ or the ‘‘MAHSA 5
Act’’. 6
SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS. 7
In this Act: 8
(1) A
DMISSION; ADMITTED; ALIEN; LAWFULLY 9
ADMITTED FOR PERMANENT RESIDENCE .—The terms 10
‘‘admission’’, ‘‘admitted’’, ‘‘alien’’, and ‘‘lawfully ad-11
mitted for permanent residence’’ have the meanings 12
given those terms in section 101 of the Immigration 13
and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1101). 14
(2) A
PPROPRIATE CONGRESSIONAL COMMIT -15
TEES.—The term ‘‘appropriate congressional commit-16
tees’’ means— 17
(A) the Committee on Foreign Relations 18
and the Committee on Banking, Housing, and 19
Urban Affairs of the Senate; and 20
(B) the Committee on Foreign Affairs and 21
the Committee on Financial Services of the 22
House of Representatives. 23
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(3) FOREIGN PERSON.—The term ‘‘foreign per-1
son’’ means an individual or entity that is not a 2
United States person. 3
(4) K
NOWINGLY.—The term ‘‘knowingly’’, with 4
respect to conduct, a circumstance, or a result, means 5
that a person has actual knowledge, or should have 6
known, of the conduct, the circumstance, or the result. 7
(5) U
NITED STATES PERSON.—The term ‘‘United 8
States person’’ means— 9
(A) a United States citizen or an alien law-10
fully admitted for permanent residence to the 11
United States; or 12
(B) an entity organized under the laws of 13
the United States or any jurisdiction within the 14
United States, including a foreign branch of 15
such an entity. 16
SEC. 3. IMPOSITION OF SANCTIONS WITH RESPECT TO THE 17
OFFICES OF THE SUPREME LEADER AND 18
PRESIDENT OF IRAN AND AFFILIATED PER-19
SONS. 20
(a) I
NGENERAL.— 21
(1) D
ETERMINATIONS AND REPORT REQUIRED .— 22
Not later than 120 days after the date of the enact-23
ment of this Act, and annually thereafter, the Presi-24
dent shall— 25
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(A) determine whether each foreign person 1
described in subsection (b) meets the criteria, on 2
or after such date of enactment, for imposition of 3
sanctions under one or more of the sanctions 4
programs and authorities listed in paragraph 5
(2); 6
(B) determine whether each foreign person 7
described in subsection (b) meets the criteria for 8
imposition of sanctions under one or more of the 9
sanctions programs and authorities listed in 10
paragraph (2) based on actions taken by that 11
foreign person in response to the protests sparked 12
by the death of Jina Mahsa Amini on September 13
16, 2022; and 14
(C) submit to the appropriate congressional 15
committees a report containing— 16
(i) a list of all foreign persons de-17
scribed in subsection (b) that meet the cri-18
teria for imposition of sanctions under one 19
or more of the sanctions programs and au-20
thorities listed in paragraph (2); and 21
(ii) for each foreign person identified 22
pursuant to clause (i)— 23
(I) a list of each sanctions pro-24
gram or authority listed in paragraph 25
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(2) for which the person meets the cri-1
teria for imposition of sanctions; 2
(II) a statement of which, if any, 3
of the sanctions mandated or author-4
ized by any of the sanctions programs 5
and authorities identified pursuant to 6
subclause (I) have been imposed or will 7
be imposed within 30 days of the sub-8
mission of the report; and 9
(III) with respect to which any of 10
the sanctions mandated or authorized 11
by any of the sanctions programs and 12
authorities identified pursuant to sub-13
clause (I) have not been imposed and 14
will not be imposed within 30 days of 15
the submission of the report— 16
(aa) the specific authority 17
under which otherwise applicable 18
sanctions are being waived, have 19
otherwise been determined not to 20
apply, or are not being imposed; 21
and 22
(bb) a complete justification 23
of the decision to waive or other-24
wise not apply the sanctions au-25
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thorized by such sanctions pro-1
grams and authorities. 2
(2) S
ANCTIONS PROGRAMS AND AUTHORITIES 3
LISTED.—The sanctions programs and authorities 4
listed in this paragraph are sanctions programs and 5
authorities pursuant to the following: 6
(A) Section 105(c) of the Comprehensive 7
Iran Sanctions, Accountability, and Divestment 8
Act of 2010 (22 U.S.C. 8514(c)). 9
(B) Executive Order 13553 (50 U.S.C. 1701 10
note; relating to blocking property of certain per-11
sons with respect to serious human rights abuses 12
by the Government of Iran). 13
(C) Executive Order 13224 (50 U.S.C. 1701 14
note; relating to blocking property and prohib-15
iting transactions with persons who commit, 16
threaten to commit, or support terrorism). 17
(D) Executive Order 13818 (50 U.S.C. 1701 18
note; relating to blocking the property of persons 19
involved in serious human rights abuse or cor-20
ruption). 21
(E) Executive Order 13876 (50 U.S.C. 1701 22
note; relating to imposing sanctions with respect 23
to Iran). 24
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(F) Penalties and visa bans applicable with 1
respect to a person pursuant to section 7031(c) 2
of the Department of State, Foreign Operations, 3
and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2023 4
(division K of Public Law 117–328). 5
(3) F
ORM OF REPORT.—The report required by 6
paragraph (1)(C) shall be submitted in an unclassi-7
fied form but may contain a classified annex pro-8
vided separately containing additional contextual in-9
formation pertaining to justification for the issuance 10
of any waiver issued, as described in paragraph 11
(1)(C)(ii). The unclassified portion of such report 12
shall be made available on a publicly available inter-13
net website of the Federal Government. 14
(b) F
OREIGNPERSONSDESCRIBED.—The foreign per-15
sons described in this subsection are the following: 16
(1) The Supreme Leader of Iran and any official 17
in the Office of the Supreme Leader of Iran. 18
(2) The President of Iran and any official in the 19
Office of the President of Iran or the President’s cabi-20
net, including cabinet ministers and executive vice 21
presidents. 22
(3) Any entity, including foundations and eco-23
nomic conglomerates, overseen by the Office of the Su-24
preme Leader of Iran that is complicit in financing 25
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or resourcing of human rights abuses or support for 1
terrorism. 2
(4) Any official of any entity owned or con-3
trolled by the Supreme Leader of Iran or the Office 4
of the Supreme Leader of Iran. 5
(5) Any person determined by the President— 6
(A) to be a person appointed by the Su-7
preme Leader of Iran, the Office of the Supreme 8
Leader of Iran, the President of Iran, or the Of-9
fice of the President of Iran to a position as a 10
state official of Iran, or as the head of any entity 11
located in Iran or any entity located outside of 12
Iran that is owned or controlled by one or more 13
entities in Iran; 14
(B) to have knowingly and significantly as-15
sisted, sponsored, or provided significant finan-16
cial, material, or technological support for, or 17
goods or services to or in support of, any person 18
the property and interests in property of which 19
are blocked pursuant to any sanctions program 20
or authority listed in subsection (a)(2); 21
(C) to be owned or controlled by, or to have 22
acted or purported to act for or on behalf of, di-23
rectly or indirectly, any person the property and 24
interests in property of which are blocked pursu-25
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ant to any sanctions program or authority listed 1
in subsection (a)(2); or 2
(D) to be a member of the board of directors 3
or a senior executive officer of any entity the 4
property and interests in property of which are 5
blocked pursuant to any sanctions program or 6
authority listed in subsection (a)(2). 7
(c) C
ONGRESSIONALOVERSIGHT.—Not later than 120 8
days after receiving a request from the chairman and rank-9
ing member of one of the appropriate congressional commit-10
tees with respect to whether a foreign person meets the cri-11
teria of a person described in subsection (b)(5), the Presi-12
dent shall— 13
(1) determine if the person meets such criteria; 14
and 15
(2) submit an unclassified report, with a classi-16
fied annex provided separately if needed, to such 17
chairman and ranking member with respect to such 18
determination that includes a statement of whether or 19
not the President imposed or intends to impose sanc-20
tions with respect to the person pursuant to any sanc-21
tions program or authority listed in subsection (a)(2). 22
(d) W
AIVERS.— 23
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(1) IN GENERAL.—The President may waive the 1
application of sanctions under this section for renew-2
able periods not to exceed 180 days if the President— 3
(A) determines that such a waiver is in the 4
national security interests of the United States; 5
and 6
(B) not less than 15 days before the grant-7
ing of the waiver, submits to the appropriate 8
congressional committees a notice of and jus-9
tification for the waiver. 10
(2) F
ORM.—The waiver described in paragraph 11
(1) may be transmitted in classified form. 12
(e) S
UNSET.—This section shall cease to have effect on 13
the date that is 4 years after the date of the enactment of 14
this Act. 15
SEC. 4. MODIFICATION AND EXTENSION OF SANCTIONING 16
THE USE OF CIVILIANS AS DEFENSELESS 17
SHIELDS ACT. 18
(a) I
NGENERAL.—Section 3 of the Sanctioning the 19
Use of Civilians as Defenseless Shields Act (Public Law 20
115–348; 50 U.S.C. 1701 note) is amended— 21
(1) in subsection (b)— 22
(A) by redesignating paragraph (3) as 23
paragraph (4); and 24
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(B) by inserting after paragraph (2) the fol-1
lowing: 2
‘‘(3) Each foreign person that the President de-3
termines, on or after the date of the enactment of the 4
MAHSA Act— 5
‘‘(A) is a member of Palestine Islamic 6
Jihad or is knowingly acting on behalf of Pal-7
estine Islamic Jihad; and 8
‘‘(B) knowingly orders, controls, or other-9
wise directs the use of civilians protected as such 10
by the law of war to shield military objectives 11
from attack.’’; 12
(2) by redesignating subsections (e), (f), (g), (h), 13
and (i) as subsections (f), (g), (h), (i), and (j), respec-14
tively; and 15
(3) by inserting after subsection (d) the fol-16
lowing: 17
‘‘(e) C
ONGRESSIONALREQUESTS.—Not later than 120 18
days after receiving a request from the chairman and rank-19
ing member of one of the appropriate congressional commit-20
tees with respect to whether a foreign person meets the cri-21
teria of a person described in subsection (b) or (c), the 22
President shall— 23
‘‘(1) determine if the person meets such criteria; 24
and 25
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‘‘(2) submit a written justification to the chair-1
man and ranking member detailing whether or not 2
the President imposed or intends to impose sanctions 3
described in subsection (b) or (c) with respect to such 4
person.’’. 5
(b) D
EFINITIONS.—Section 4 of the Sanctioning the 6
Use of Civilians as Defenseless Shields Act (Public Law 7
115–348; 50 U.S.C. 1701 note) is amended— 8
(1) by redesignating paragraph (7) as para-9
graph (8); and 10
(2) by inserting after paragraph (6) the fol-11
lowing: 12
‘‘(7) P
ALESTINE ISLAMIC JIHAD .—The term 13
‘Palestine Islamic Jihad’ means— 14
‘‘(A) the entity known as Palestine Islamic 15
Jihad and designated by the Secretary of State 16
as a foreign terrorist organization pursuant to 17
section 219 of the Immigration and Nationality 18
Act (8 U.S.C. 1189); or 19
‘‘(B) any person identified as an agent or 20
instrumentality of Palestine Islamic Jihad on 21
the list of specially designated nationals and 22
blocked persons maintained by the Office of For-23
eign Assets Control of the Department of the 24
Treasury, the property or interests in property of 25
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which are blocked pursuant to the International 1
Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 2
1701 et seq.).’’. 3
(c) S
UNSET.—Section 5 of the Sanctioning the Use of 4
Civilians as Defenseless Shields Act (Public Law 115–348; 5
50 U.S.C. 1701 note) is amended by striking ‘‘December 6
31, 2023’’ and inserting ‘‘December 31, 2030’’. 7
SEC. 5. CONFRONTING ASYMMETRIC AND MALICIOUS 8
CYBER ACTIVITIES. 9
(a) I
NGENERAL.—On and after the date that is 180 10
days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Presi-11
dent may impose the sanctions described in subsection (b) 12
with respect to any foreign person that the President deter-13
mines, on or after such date of enactment— 14
(1) is responsible for or complicit in, or has en-15
gaged knowingly in, significant cyber-enabled activi-16
ties originating from, or directed by persons located, 17
in whole or in substantial part, outside the United 18
States that are reasonably likely to result in, or have 19
materially contributed to, a significant threat to the 20
national security, foreign policy, or economic health 21
or financial stability of the United States; 22
(2) materially assisted, sponsored, or provided fi-23
nancial, material, or technological support for, or 24
goods or services to or in support of, any activity de-25
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scribed in this subsection or any person whose prop-1
erty and interests in property are blocked pursuant to 2
this section; 3
(3) is owned or controlled by, or has acted or 4
purported to act for or on behalf of, directly or indi-5
rectly, any person whose property and interests in 6
property are blocked pursuant to this section; or 7
(4) has attempted to engage in any of the activi-8
ties described in paragraph (1), (2), or (3). 9
(b) S
ANCTIONSDESCRIBED.—The sanctions described 10
in this subsection are the following: 11
(1) I
NADMISSIBILITY TO UNITED STATES .—In 12
the case of an alien— 13
(A) ineligibility to receive a visa to enter 14
the United States or to be admitted to the United 15
States; or 16
(B) if the individual has been issued a visa 17
or other documentation, revocation, in accord-18
ance with section 221(i) of the Immigration and 19
Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1201(i)), of the visa or 20
other documentation. 21
(2) B
LOCKING OF PROPERTY .—The blocking, in 22
accordance with the International Emergency Eco-23
nomic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.), of all 24
transactions in all property and interests in property 25
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of a foreign person if such property and interests in 1
property are in the United States, come within the 2
United States, or are or come within the possession 3
or control of a United States person. 4
(c) R
EQUESTS BY APPROPRIATECONGRESSIONAL 5
C
OMMITTEES.— 6
(1) I
N GENERAL.—Not later than 120 days after 7
receiving a request that meets the requirements of 8
paragraph (2) with respect to whether a foreign per-9
son has engaged in an activity described in subsection 10
(a), the President shall— 11
(A) determine if that person has engaged in 12
such an activity; and 13
(B) submit a classified or unclassified re-14
port to the chairperson and ranking member of 15
the committee or committees that submitted the 16
request with respect to that determination that 17
includes— 18
(i) a statement of whether or not the 19
President imposed or intends to impose 20
sanctions with respect to the person; 21
(ii) if the President imposed or intends 22
to impose sanctions, a description of those 23
sanctions; and 24
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(iii) if the President does not intend to 1
impose sanctions, a description of actions 2
that meet the threshold for the President to 3
impose sanctions. 4
(2) R
EQUIREMENTS.—A request under para-5
graph (1) with respect to whether a foreign person has 6
engaged in an activity described in subsection (a) 7
shall be submitted to the President in writing jointly 8
by the chairperson and ranking member of one of the 9
appropriate congressional committees. 10
SEC. 6. SANCTIONS WITH RESPECT TO THREATS TO CUR-11
RENT OR FORMER UNITED STATES OFFI-12
CIALS. 13
(a) I
NGENERAL.—On and after the date that is 180 14
days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Presi-15
dent shall impose the sanctions described in subsection (b) 16
with respect to any foreign person the President determines 17
has, on or after such date of enactment, ordered, directed, 18
or taken material steps to carry out any use of violence 19
or has attempted or threatened to use violence against any 20
current or former official of the Government of the United 21
States. 22
(b) S
ANCTIONSDESCRIBED.—The sanctions described 23
in this subsection are the following: 24
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(1) INADMISSIBILITY TO UNITED STATES .—In 1
the case of a foreign person who is an individual— 2
(A) ineligibility to receive a visa to enter 3
the United States or to be admitted to the United 4
States; or 5
(B) if the individual has been issued a visa 6
or other documentation, revocation, in accord-7
ance with section 221(i) of the Immigration and 8
Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1201(i)), of the visa or 9
other documentation. 10
(2) B
LOCKING OF PROPERTY .—The blocking, in 11
accordance with the International Emergency Eco-12
nomic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.), of all 13
transactions in all property and interests in property 14
of a foreign person if such property and interests in 15
property are in the United States, come within the 16
United States, or are or come within the possession 17
or control of a United States person. 18
(c) E
NFORCEMENT OF BLOCKING OFPROPERTY.—A 19
person that violates, attempts to violate, conspires to vio-20
late, or causes a violation of a sanction described in sub-21
section (b)(2) that is imposed by the President or any regu-22
lation, license, or order issued to carry out such a sanction 23
shall be subject to the penalties set forth in subsections (b) 24
and (c) of section 206 of the International Emergency Eco-25
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nomic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1705) to the same extent as 1
a person that commits an unlawful act described in sub-2
section (a) of that section. 3
(d) W
AIVER.— 4
(1) I
N GENERAL.—The President may waive the 5
application of sanctions under this section for renew-6
able periods not to exceed 180 days if the President— 7
(A) determines that such a waiver is in the 8
vital national security interests of the United 9
States; and 10
(B) not less than 15 days before the grant-11
ing of the waiver, submits to the appropriate 12
congressional committees a notice of and jus-13
tification for the waiver. 14
(e) T
ERMINATION ANDSUNSET.— 15
(1) T
ERMINATION OF SANCTIONS.—The President 16
may terminate the application of sanctions under this 17
section with respect to a person if the President deter-18
mines and reports to the appropriate congressional 19
committees not later than 15 days before the termi-20
nation of the sanctions that— 21
(A) credible information exists that the per-22
son did not engage in the activity for which 23
sanctions were imposed; 24
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(B) the person has credibly demonstrated a 1
significant change in behavior, has paid an ap-2
propriate consequence for the activity for which 3
sanctions were imposed, and has credibly com-4
mitted to not engage in an activity described in 5
subsection (a) in the future; or 6
(C) the termination of the sanctions is in 7
the vital national security interests of the United 8
States. 9
(2) S
UNSET.—The requirement to impose sanc-10
tions under this section shall terminate on the date 11
that is 4 years after the date of the enactment of this 12
Act. 13
SEC. 7. RESOURCES FOR SANCTIONS IMPLEMENTATION AT 14
THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE. 15
(a) S
ENSE OFCONGRESS.—It is the sense of Congress 16
that sanctions are a vital foreign policy and national secu-17
rity tool, and as such, it is critical that the Department 18
of State and other agencies with responsibilities relating to 19
sanctions across the executive branch— 20
(1) are fully staffed, including through the 21
prompt confirmation by the Senate of a qualified 22
head of the Office of Sanctions Coordination of the 23
Department of State; and 24
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(2) have the resources and infrastructure nec-1
essary for the successful development and implementa-2
tion of sanctions. 3
(b) I
NCREASINGRESOURCES AND IMPROVINGMOD-4
ERNIZATION FORSANCTIONSIMPLEMENTATION.—The Sec-5
retary of State shall take steps to modernize the sanctions 6
infrastructure and increase resources dedicated to imple-7
menting sanctions, including by— 8
(1) ensuring the Department of State has nec-9
essary subscriptions and access to open-source data-10
bases for purposes of making determinations to sup-11
port the designation of persons for the imposition of 12
sanctions; 13
(2) equipping bureaus involved in drafting and 14
reviewing evidentiary packages to support such des-15
ignations with sufficient technical resources to do so, 16
including an adequate number of workstations that 17
can be used to review classified information; and 18
(3) increasing the number of personnel dedicated 19
to making and reviewing such designations. 20
(c) R
EPORT ONMODERNIZATIONEFFORTS.—Not later 21
than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, 22
the Secretary of State shall submit to the Committee on For-23
eign Relations of the Senate and the Committee on Foreign 24
Affairs of the House of Representatives a report describing 25
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steps the Department of State is taking to address chal-1
lenges in the ability of the Department to support the des-2
ignation of persons for the imposition of sanctions. 3
(d) A
UTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATION.—There is 4
authorized to be appropriated to the Secretary of State for 5
fiscal year 2025 $15,000,000 to carry out this section. 6
SEC. 8. REPORT ON IMPACTS ON THE ISLAMIC REPUBLIC 7
OF IRAN OF SANCTIONS IMPOSED BY THE 8
UNITED STATES. 9
(a) I
NGENERAL.—Not later than 90 days after the 10
date of the enactment this Act, the Secretary of State, in 11
consultation with the Secretary of the Treasury and draw-12
ing on subject-matter experts including economists and stat-13
isticians from the Department of State and the Department 14
of the Treasury, shall submit to the appropriate congres-15
sional committees a report on the impacts on the Islamic 16
Republic of Iran of sanctions imposed by the United States. 17
(b) E
LEMENTS.—The report required by subsection (a) 18
shall include an assessment of the following: 19
(1) The impact of sanctions imposed by the 20
United States on the following: 21
(A) Problematic activities and policies of 22
the Islamic Republic of Iran, including ballistic 23
missile development, proliferation of Iranian 24
drones and missiles to state and non-state actors, 25
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uranium enrichment, and funding of terrorist 1
groups in the ‘‘Axis of Resistance’’, and how 2
sanctions have meaningfully impacted the ability 3
of such groups to operate. 4
(B) Key officials of the Iranian regime, in-5
cluding their access to alternative financial mar-6
kets, their standard of living, and impacts to 7
their personal wealth. 8
(C) The operations of independent civil so-9
ciety organizations in Iran, including the ability 10
of such organizations to access products that 11
would allow them to document and share human 12
rights abuses, promote democratic norms, and 13
engage in political dissent. 14
(D) The efficacy of licensing actions aimed 15
at ensuring the people of Iran have access to cir-16
cumvention technologies around Iranian regime 17
firewalls and censors to promote internet free-18
dom, including General License D-2 of the De-19
partment of the Treasury. 20
(E) The standard of living of the people of 21
Iran, including— 22
(i) the impact on the purchasing power 23
of the people of Iran and their ability to af-24
ford and acquire food and medicine; and 25
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(ii) changes in the size of the working 1
and middle classes in Iran, including im-2
pacts to the poverty rate in Iran. 3
(F) The growth of unofficial economies con-4
trolled by officials of the Iranian regime and 5
members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard 6
Corps. 7
(2) What industries in Iran remain unaffected 8
by such sanctions. 9
SEC. 9. EXCEPTIONS. 10
(a) E
XCEPTIONRELATING TO IMPORTATION OF 11
G
OODS.— 12
(1) I
N GENERAL.—A requirement to block and 13
prohibit all transactions in all property and interests 14
in property under this Act shall not include the au-15
thority or a requirement to impose sanctions on the 16
importation of goods. 17
(2) G
OOD.—In this subsection, the term ‘‘good’’ 18
means any article, natural or manmade substance, 19
material, supply, or manufactured product, including 20
inspection and test equipment, and excluding tech-21
nical data. 22
(b) E
XCEPTION TOCOMPLYWITHUNITEDNATIONS 23
H
EADQUARTERSAGREEMENT ANDLAWENFORCEMENTAC-24
TIVITIES.—Sanctions under this Act shall not apply with 25
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respect to the admission of an alien to the United States 1
if admitting or paroling the alien into the United States 2
is necessary— 3
(1) to permit the United States to comply with 4
the Agreement regarding the Headquarters of the 5
United Nations, signed at Lake Success June 26, 6
1947, and entered into force November 21, 1947, be-7
tween the United Nations and the United States, or 8
other applicable international obligations of the 9
United States; or 10
(2) to carry out or assist authorized law enforce-11
ment activity in the United States. 12
(c) E
XCEPTION TOCOMPLYWITHINTELLIGENCEAC-13
TIVITIES.—Sanctions under this Act shall not apply to any 14
activity subject to the reporting requirements under title V 15
of the National Security Act of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 3091 et 16
seq.) or any authorized intelligence activities of the United 17
States. 18
(d) H
UMANITARIANASSISTANCE.— 19
(1) I
N GENERAL.—Sanctions under this Act shall 20
not apply to— 21
(A) the conduct or facilitation of a trans-22
action for the provision of agricultural commod-23
ities, food, medicine, medical devices, humani-24
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tarian assistance, or for humanitarian purposes; 1
or 2
(B) transactions that are necessary for or 3
related to the activities described in subpara-4
graph (A). 5
(2) D
EFINITIONS.—In this subsection: 6
(A) A
GRICULTURAL COMMODITY .—The term 7
‘‘agricultural commodity’’ has the meaning given 8
that term in section 102 of the Agricultural 9
Trade Act of 1978 (7 U.S.C. 5602). 10
(B) M
EDICAL DEVICE.—The term ‘‘medical 11
device’’ has the meaning given the term ‘‘device’’ 12
in section 201 of the Federal Food, Drug, and 13
Cosmetic Act (21 U.S.C. 321). 14
(C) M
EDICINE.—The term ‘‘medicine’’ has 15
the meaning given the term ‘‘drug’’ in section 16
201 of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act 17
(21 U.S.C. 321). 18
(e) R
EPORT ONEXCEPTIONS.—Not later than one year 19
after the date of the enactment of this Act, and annually 20
thereafter, the President shall submit to the appropriate 21
congressional committees a report that describes each activ-22
ity that would be subject to sanctions under this Act if not 23
excepted pursuant to subsection (b) or (c). 24
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118
TH
CONGRESS
2
D
S
ESSION
S. 2626 A BILL
To impose sanctions with respect to the Supreme
Leader of Iran and the President of Iran and
their respective offices for human rights abuses
and support for terrorism.
M
AY
7, 2024
Reported with an amendment
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