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Suspend the Rules and Pass the Bill, HR. 1400, with An Amendment
(The amendment strikes all after the enacting clause and inserts a new text)
110TH CONGRESS 1ST SESSION H. R. 1400
To enhance United States diplomatic efforts with respect to Iran by imposing
additional economic sanctions against Iran, and for other purposes.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
MARCH 8, 2007
Mr. LANTOS (for himself, Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN, Mr. ACKERMAN, Mr. PENCE,
Mr. SHERMAN, Mr. ROYCE, Mr. BERMAN, and Mr. SMITH of New Jersey)
introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on
Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means,
Financial Services, Oversight and Government Reform, and 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 enhance United States diplomatic efforts with respect
to Iran by imposing additional economic sanctions
against Iran, and for other purposes.
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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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE AND TABLE OF CONTENTS. 1
(a) SHORT TITLE.—This Act may be cited as the 2
‘‘Iran Counter-Proliferation Act of 2007’’. 3
(b) TABLE OF CONTENTS.—The table of contents for 4
this Act is as follows:5
Sec. 1. Short title and table of contents.
Sec. 2. United States policy toward Iran.
TITLE I—SUPPORT FOR DIPLOMATIC EFFORTS RELATING TO
PREVENTING IRAN FROM ACQUIRING NUCLEAR WEAPONS
Sec. 101. Support for international diplomatic efforts.
Sec. 102. Peaceful efforts by the United States.
TITLE II—ADDITIONAL BILATERAL SANCTIONS AGAINST IRAN
Sec. 201. Application to subsidiaries.
Sec. 202. Additional import sanctions against Iran.
Sec. 203. Additional export sanctions against Iran.
Sec. 204. Temporary increase in fee for certain consular services.
TITLE III—AMENDMENTS TO THE IRAN SANCTIONS ACT OF 1996
Sec. 301. Multilateral regime.
Sec. 302. Mandatory sanctions.
Sec. 303. Authority to impose sanctions on principal executive officers.
Sec. 304. United States efforts to prevent investment.
Sec. 305. Clarification and expansion of definitions.
Sec. 306. Removal of waiver authority.
Sec. 307. Clarification of authority.
Sec. 308. Applicability of certain amendments.
TITLE IV—ADDITIONAL MEASURES
Sec. 401. Additions to terrorism and other lists.
Sec. 402. Increased capacity for efforts to combat unlawful or terrorist financ-
ing.
Sec. 403. Exchange programs with the people of Iran.
Sec. 404. Reducing contributions to the World Bank.
Sec. 405. Restrictions on nuclear cooperation with countries assisting the nu-
clear program of Iran.
TITLE V—MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS
Sec. 501. Termination.
SEC. 2. UNITED STATES POLICY TOWARD IRAN. 6
(a) FINDINGS.—Congress finds the following: 7
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(1) The prospect of the Islamic Republic of 1
Iran achieving nuclear arms represents a grave 2
threat to the United States and its allies in the Mid-3
dle East, Europe, and globally. 4
(2) The nature of this threat is manifold, rang-5
ing from the vastly enhanced political influence ex-6
tremist Iran would wield in its region, including the 7
ability to intimidate its neighbors, to, at its most 8
nightmarish, the prospect that Iran would attack its 9
neighbors and others with nuclear arms. This con-10
cern is illustrated by the statement of Hashemi 11
Rafsanjani, former president of Iran and currently a 12
prominent member of two of Iran’s most important 13
decisionmaking bodies, of December 14, 2001, when 14
he said that it ‘‘is not irrational to contemplate’’ the 15
use of nuclear weapons. 16
(3) The theological nature of the Iranian re-17
gime creates a special urgency in addressing Iran’s 18
efforts to acquire nuclear weapons. 19
(4) Iranian regime leaders have persistently de-20
nied Israel’s right to exist. Current President 21
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has called for Israel to be 22
‘‘wiped off the map’’ and the Government of Iran 23
has displayed inflammatory symbols that express 24
similar intent. 25
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(5) The nature of the Iranian threat makes it 1
critical that the United States and its allies do ev-2
erything possible—diplomatically, politically, and 3
economically—to prevent Iran from acquiring nu-4
clear-arms capability and persuade the Iranian re-5
gime to halt its quest for nuclear arms. 6
(b) SENSE OF CONGRESS.—It is the sense of the 7
Congress that—8
(1) Iranian President Ahmadinejad’s persistent 9
denials of the Holocaust and his repeated assertions 10
that Israel should be ‘‘wiped off the map’’ may con-11
stitute a violation of the Convention on the Preven-12
tion and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide and 13
should be brought before an appropriate inter-14
national tribunal for the purpose of declaring Iran 15
in breach of the Genocide Convention; 16
(2) the United States should increase use of its 17
important role in the international financial sector to 18
isolate Iran; 19
(3) Iran should be barred from entering the 20
World Trade Organization (WTO) until all issues re-21
lated to its nuclear program are resolved; 22
(4) all future free trade agreements entered 23
into by the United States should be conditioned on 24
the requirement that the parties to such agreements 25
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pledge not to invest and not to allow companies 1
based in its territory or controlled by its citizens to 2
invest in Iran’s energy sector or otherwise to make 3
significant investment in Iran; 4
(5) United Nations Security Council Resolu-5
tions 1737 (December 23, 2006) and 1747 (March 6
24, 2007), which were passed unanimously and man-7
date an immediate and unconditional suspension of 8
Iran’s nuclear enrichment program, represent a crit-9
ical gain in the worldwide campaign to prevent 10
Iran’s acquisition of nuclear arms and should be 11
fully respected by all nations; 12
(6) the United Nations Security Council should 13
take further measures beyond Resolutions 1737 and 14
1747 to tighten sanctions on Iran, including pre-15
venting new investment in Iran’s energy sector, as 16
long as Iran fails to comply with the international 17
community’s demand to halt its nuclear enrichment 18
campaign; 19
(7) the United States should encourage foreign 20
governments to direct state-owned entities to cease 21
all investment in Iran’s energy sector and all exports 22
of refined petroleum products to Iran and to per-23
suade, and, where possible, require private entities 24
based in their territories to cease all investment in 25
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Iran’s energy sector and all exports of refined petro-1
leum products to Iran; 2
(8) moderate Arab states have a vital and per-3
haps existential interest in preventing Iran from ac-4
quiring nuclear arms, and therefore such states, par-5
ticularly those with large oil deposits, should use 6
their economic leverage to dissuade other nations, 7
including the Russian Federation and the People’s 8
Republic of China, from assisting Iran’s nuclear pro-9
gram directly or indirectly and to persuade other na-10
tions, including Russia and China, to be more forth-11
coming in supporting United Nations Security Coun-12
cil efforts to halt Iran’s nuclear program; 13
(9) the United States should take all possible 14
measures to discourage and, if possible, prevent for-15
eign banks from providing export credits to foreign 16
entities seeking to invest in the Iranian energy sec-17
tor; 18
(10) the United States should oppose any fur-19
ther activity by the International Bank for Recon-20
struction and Development with respect to Iran, or 21
the adoption of a new Country Assistance Strategy 22
for Iran, including by seeking the cooperation of 23
other countries; 24
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(11) the United States should extend its pro-1
gram of discouraging foreign banks from accepting 2
Iranian state banks as clients; 3
(12) the United States should prohibit all Ira-4
nian state banks from using the United States bank-5
ing system; 6
(13) State and local government pension plans 7
should divest themselves of all non-United States 8
companies investing more than $20,000,000 in 9
Iran’s energy sector; 10
(14) the United States should designate the 11
Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, which 12
purveys terrorism throughout the Middle East and 13
plays an important role in the Iranian economy, as 14
a foreign terrorist organization under section 219 of 15
the Immigration and Nationality Act, place the Ira-16
nian Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps on the list 17
of specially designated global terrorists, and place 18
the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps on 19
the list of weapons of mass destruction proliferators 20
and their supporters; 21
(15) United States concerns regarding Iran are 22
strictly the result of actions of the Government of 23
Iran; and 24
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(16) the American people have feelings of 1
friendship for the Iranian people, regret that devel-2
opments of recent decades have created impediments 3
to that friendship, and hold the Iranian people, their 4
culture, and their ancient and rich history in the 5
highest esteem. 6
TITLE I—SUPPORT FOR DIPLO-7
MATIC EFFORTS RELATING 8
TO PREVENTING IRAN FROM 9
ACQUIRING NUCLEAR WEAP-10
ONS 11
SEC. 101. SUPPORT FOR INTERNATIONAL DIPLOMATIC EF-12
FORTS. 13
It is the sense of the Congress that—14
(1) the United States should use diplomatic and 15
economic means to resolve the Iranian nuclear prob-16
lem; 17
(2) the United States should continue to sup-18
port efforts in the International Atomic Energy 19
Agency and the United Nations Security Council to 20
bring about an end to Iran’s uranium enrichment 21
program and its nuclear weapons program; and 22
(3)(A) United Nations Security Council Resolu-23
tion 1737 was a useful first step toward pressing 24
Iran to end its nuclear weapons program; and 25
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(B) in light of Iran’s continued defiance of the 1
international community, the United Nations Secu-2
rity Council should adopt additional measures 3
against Iran, including measures to prohibit invest-4
ments in Iran’s energy sector. 5
SEC. 102. PEACEFUL EFFORTS BY THE UNITED STATES. 6
Nothing in this Act shall be construed as authorizing 7
the use of force or the use of the United States Armed 8
Forces against Iran. 9
TITLE II—ADDITIONAL BILAT-10
ERAL SANCTIONS AGAINST 11
IRAN 12
SEC. 201. APPLICATION TO SUBSIDIARIES. 13
(a) IN GENERAL.—Except as provided in subsection 14
(b), in any case in which an entity engages in an act out-15
side the United States which, if committed in the United 16
States or by a United States person, would violate Execu-17
tive Order No. 12959 of May 6, 1995, Executive Order 18
No. 13059 of August 19, 1997, or any other prohibition 19
on transactions with respect to Iran that is imposed under 20
the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 21
U.S.C. 1701 et seq.) and if that entity was created or 22
availed of for the purpose of engaging in such an act, the 23
parent company of that entity shall be subject to the pen-24
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alties for such violation to the same extent as if the parent 1
company had engaged in that act. 2
(b) EXCEPTION.—Subsection (a) shall not apply to 3
any act carried out under a contract or other obligation 4
of any entity if—5
(1) the contract or obligation existed on May 6
22, 2007, unless such contract or obligation is ex-7
tended in time in any manner or expanded to cover 8
additional activities beyond the terms of the contract 9
or other obligation as it existed on May 22, 2007; 10
or 11
(2) the parent company acquired that entity not 12
knowing, and not having reason to know, that such 13
contract or other obligation existed, unless such con-14
tract or other obligation is extended in time in any 15
manner or expanded to cover additional activities be-16
yond the terms of such contract or other obligation 17
as it existed at the time of such acquisition. 18
(c) CONSTRUCTION.—Nothing in this section shall be 19
construed as prohibiting the issuance of regulations, or-20
ders, directives, or licenses under the Executive orders de-21
scribed in subsection (a) or as being inconsistent with the 22
authorities under the International Emergency Economic 23
Powers Act. 24
(d) DEFINITIONS.—In this section—25
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(1) the term ‘‘entity’’ means a partnership, as-1
sociation, trust, joint venture, corporation, or other 2
organization; 3
(2) an entity is a ‘‘parent company’’ of another 4
entity if it controls, directly or indirectly, that other 5
entity and is a United States person; and 6
(3) the term ‘‘United States person’’ means any 7
United States citizen, any alien lawfully admitted for 8
permanent residence to the United States, any entity 9
organized under the laws of the United States, or 10
any person in the United States. 11
SEC. 202. ADDITIONAL IMPORT SANCTIONS AGAINST IRAN. 12
Effective 120 days after the date of the enactment 13
of this Act—14
(1) goods of Iranian origin that are otherwise 15
authorized to be imported under section 560.534 of 16
title 31, Code of Federal Regulations, as in effect on 17
March 5, 2007, may not be imported into the United 18
States under such section; and 19
(2) activities otherwise authorized by section 20
560.535 of title 31, Code of Federal Regulations, as 21
in effect on March 5, 2007, are no longer authorized 22
under such section. 23
SEC. 203. ADDITIONAL EXPORT SANCTIONS AGAINST IRAN. 24
Effective on the date of the enactment of this Act—25
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(1) licenses to export or reexport goods, serv-1
ices, or technology relating to civil aviation that are 2
otherwise authorized by section 560.528 of title 31, 3
Code of Federal Regulations, as in effect on March 4
5, 2007, may not be issued, and any such license 5
issued before such date of enactment is no longer 6
valid; and 7
(2) goods, services, or technology described in 8
paragraph (1) may not be exported or reexported. 9
SEC. 204. TEMPORARY INCREASE IN FEE FOR CERTAIN 10
CONSULAR SERVICES. 11
(a) INCREASE IN FEE.—Notwithstanding any other 12
provision of law, not later than 120 days after the date 13
of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of State shall 14
increase by $1.00 the fee or surcharge assessed under sec-15
tion 140(a) of the Foreign Relations Authorization Act, 16
Fiscal Years 1994 and 1995 (Public Law 103–236; 8 17
U.S.C. 1351 note) for processing machine readable non-18
immigrant visas and machine readable combined border 19
crossing identification cards and nonimmigrant visas. 20
(b) DEPOSIT OF AMOUNTS.—Fees collected under the 21
authority of subsection (a) shall be deposited in the Treas-22
ury. 23
(c) DURATION OF INCREASE.—The fee increase au-24
thorized under subsection (a) shall terminate on the date 25
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that is one year after the date on which such fee is first 1
collected. 2
TITLE III—AMENDMENTS TO 3
THE IRAN SANCTIONS ACT OF 4
19965
SEC. 301. MULTILATERAL REGIME. 6
Section 4(b) of the Iran Sanctions Act of 1996 (50 7
U.S.C. 1701 note) is amended to read as follows: 8
‘‘(b) REPORTS TO CONGRESS.—Not later than 6 9
months after the date of the enactment of the Iran 10
Counter-Proliferation Act of 2007 and every six months 11
thereafter, the President shall transmit to the appropriate 12
congressional committees a report regarding specific diplo-13
matic efforts undertaken pursuant to subsection (a), the 14
results of those efforts, and a description of proposed dip-15
lomatic efforts pursuant to such subsection. Each report 16
shall include—17
‘‘(1) a list of the countries that have agreed to 18
undertake measures to further the objectives of sec-19
tion 3 with respect to Iran; 20
‘‘(2) a description of those measures, includ-21
ing—22
‘‘(A) government actions with respect to 23
public or private entities (or their subsidiaries) 24
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located in their territories, that are engaged in 1
Iran; 2
‘‘(B) any decisions by the governments of 3
these countries to rescind or continue the provi-4
sion of credits, guarantees, or other govern-5
mental assistance to these entities; and 6
‘‘(C) actions taken in international fora to 7
further the objectives of section 3; 8
‘‘(3) a list of the countries that have not agreed 9
to undertake measures to further the objectives of 10
section 3 with respect to Iran, and the reasons 11
therefor; and 12
‘‘(4) a description of any memorandums of un-13
derstanding, political understandings, or inter-14
national agreements to which the United States has 15
acceded which affect implementation of this section 16
or section 5(a).’’. 17
SEC. 302. MANDATORY SANCTIONS. 18
Section 5(a) of the Iran Sanctions Act of 1996 (50 19
U.S.C. 1701 note) is amended by striking ‘‘2 or more of 20
the sanctions described in paragraphs (1) through (6) of 21
section 6’’ and inserting ‘‘the sanction described in para-22
graph (5) of section 6 and, in addition, one or more of 23
the sanctions described in paragraphs (1), (2), (3), (4), 24
and (6) of such section’’. 25
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SEC. 303. AUTHORITY TO IMPOSE SANCTIONS ON PRIN-1
CIPAL EXECUTIVE OFFICERS. 2
Section 5 of the Iran Sanctions Act of 1996 (50 3
U.S.C. 1701 note) is amended by adding at the end the 4
following: 5
‘‘(g) AUTHORITY TO IMPOSE SANCTIONS ON PRIN-6
CIPAL EXECUTIVE OFFICERS.—7
‘‘(1) SANCTIONS UNDER SECTION 6.—In addi-8
tion to the sanctions imposed under subsection (a), 9
the President may impose any of the sanctions 10
under section 6 on the principal executive officer or 11
officers of any sanctioned person, or on persons per-12
forming similar functions as such officer or officers. 13
The President shall include on the list published 14
under subsection (d) the name of any person on 15
whom sanctions are imposed under this paragraph. 16
‘‘(2) ADDITIONAL SANCTIONS.—In addition to 17
the sanctions imposed under paragraph (1), the 18
President may block the property of any person de-19
scribed in paragraph (1), and prohibit transactions 20
in such property, to the same extent as the property 21
of a foreign person determined to have committed 22
acts of terrorism for purposes of Executive Order 23
13224 of September 23, 2001 (50 U.S.C. 1701 24
note).’’. 25
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SEC. 304. UNITED STATES EFFORTS TO PREVENT INVEST-1
MENT. 2
Section 5 of the Iran Sanctions Act of 1996 is 3
amended by adding the following new subsection at the 4
end: 5
‘‘(h) UNITED STATES EFFORTS TO ADDRESS 6
PLANNED INVESTMENT.—7
‘‘(1) REPORTS ON INVESTMENT ACTIVITY.—Not 8
later than January 30, 2008, and every 6 months 9
thereafter, the President shall transmit to the Com-10
mittee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Rep-11
resentatives and the Committee on Foreign Rela-12
tions of the Senate a report on investment and pre-13
investment activity, by any person or entity, that 14
could contribute to the enhancement of Iran’s ability 15
to develop petroleum resources in Iran. For each 16
such activity, the President shall provide a descrip-17
tion of the activity, any information regarding when 18
actual investment may commence, and what steps 19
the United States has taken to respond to such ac-20
tivity. 21
‘‘(2) DEFINITION.—In this subsection—22
‘‘(A) the term ‘investment’ includes the ex-23
tension by a financial institution of credit or 24
other financing to a person for that person’s in-25
vestment; and 26
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‘‘(B) the term ‘pre-investment activity’ 1
means any activity indicating an intent to make 2
an investment, including a memorandum of un-3
derstanding among parties indicating such an 4
intent.’’5
SEC. 305. CLARIFICATION AND EXPANSION OF DEFINI-6
TIONS. 7
(a) PERSON.—Section 14(13)(B) of the Iran Sanc-8
tions Act of 1996 (50 U.S.C. 1701 note) is amended to 9
read as follows: 10
‘‘(B)(i) a corporation, business association, 11
partnership, society, trust, financial institution, 12
insurer, underwriter, guarantor, and any other 13
business organization; 14
‘‘(ii) any foreign subsidiary of any entity 15
described in clause (i); and 16
‘‘(iii) any government entity operating as a 17
business enterprise, such as an export credit 18
agency; and’’. 19
(b) DEVELOPMENT AND INVESTMENT.—Section 14 20
of the Iran Sanctions Act of 1996 (50 U.S.C. 1701 note) 21
is amended—22
(1) in paragraph (4), by inserting ‘‘tanker or’’ 23
after ‘‘transportation by’’; and 24
(2) in paragraph (9)—25
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(A) by inserting after subparagraph (C) 1
the following: 2
‘‘(D) The sale of an oil tanker or liquefied 3
natural gas tanker.’’; and 4
(B) in the second sentence, by inserting ‘‘, 5
other than a sale described in subparagraph 6
(D)’’ after ‘‘goods, service, or technology’’. 7
SEC. 306. REMOVAL OF WAIVER AUTHORITY. 8
(a) SIX-MONTH WAIVER AUTHORITY.—Section 4 of 9
the Iran Sanctions Act of 1996 (50 U.S.C. 1701 note) 10
is amended—11
(1) in subsection (d)(1), by striking ‘‘except 12
those with respect to which the President has exer-13
cised the waiver authority of subsection (c)’’; 14
(2) by striking subsection (c); and 15
(3) by redesignating subsections (d), (e), and 16
(f) as subsections (c), (d), and (e), respectively. 17
(b) GENERAL WAIVER AUTHORITY.—Section 9 of the 18
Iran Sanctions Act of 1996 (50 U.S.C. 1701 note) is 19
amended by striking subsection (c). 20
SEC. 307. CLARIFICATION OF AUTHORITY. 21
Section 6(6) of the Iran Sanctions Act of 1996 (50 22
U.S.C. 1701 note) is amended by inserting ‘‘the authori-23
ties under’’ after ‘‘in accordance with’’. 24
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SEC. 308. APPLICABILITY OF CERTAIN AMENDMENTS. 1
The amendments made by sections 302, 305, and 306 2
shall apply with respect to acts done on or after August 3
3, 2007. 4
TITLE IV—ADDITIONAL 5
MEASURES 6
SEC. 401. ADDITIONS TO TERRORISM AND OTHER LISTS. 7
(a) DETERMINATIONS AND REPORT.—Not later than 8
120 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the 9
President shall—10
(1) determine whether the Iranian Islamic Rev-11
olutionary Guards Corps (in this section referred to 12
as ‘‘IRGC’’) should be—13
(A) designated as a foreign terrorist orga-14
nization under section 219 of the Immigration 15
and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1189); 16
(B) placed on the list of specially des-17
ignated global terrorists; and 18
(C) placed on the list of weapons of mass 19
destruction proliferators and their supporters; 20
and 21
(2) report the determinations under paragraph 22
(1) to the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the 23
House of Representatives and the Committee on 24
Foreign Relations of the Senate, including, if the 25
President determines that such Corps should not be 26
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so designated or placed on either such list, the jus-1
tification for the President’s determination. 2
(b) EXTENSION OF AUTHORITY.—The President may 3
block all property and interests in property of the fol-4
lowing persons, to the same extent as property and inter-5
ests in property of a foreign person determined to have 6
committed acts of terrorism for purposes of Executive 7
Order 13224 of September 21, 2001 (50 U.S.C. 1701 8
note) may be blocked: 9
(1) Persons who assist or provide financial, ma-10
terial, or technological support for, or financial or 11
other services to or in support of, the IRGC or enti-12
ties owned or effectively controlled by the IRGC. 13
(2) Persons otherwise associated with the IRGC 14
or entities referred to in paragraph (1). 15
(c) DEFINITIONS.—In this section—16
(1) the term ‘‘specially designated global ter-17
rorist’’ means any person included on the Annex to 18
Executive Order 13224, of September 23, 2001, and 19
any other person identified under section 1 of that 20
Executive order whose property and interests in 21
property are blocked by that section; and 22
(2) the term ‘‘weapons of mass destruction 23
proliferators and their supporters’’ means any per-24
son included on the Annex to Executive Order 25
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13382, of June 28, 2005, and any other person 1
identified under section 1 of that Executive order 2
whose property and interests in property are blocked 3
by that section. 4
SEC. 402. INCREASED CAPACITY FOR EFFORTS TO COMBAT 5
UNLAWFUL OR TERRORIST FINANCING. 6
(a) FINDINGS.—The work of the Office of Terrorism 7
and Financial Intelligence of the Department of Treasury, 8
which includes the Office of Foreign Assets Control and 9
the Financial Crimes Enforcement Center, is critical to 10
ensuring that the international financial system is not 11
used for purposes of supporting terrorism and developing 12
weapons of mass destruction. 13
(b) AUTHORIZATION.—There is authorized for the 14
Secretary of the Treasury $59,466,000 for fiscal year 15
2008 and such sums as may be necessary for each of the 16
fiscal years 2009 and 2010 for the Office of Terrorism 17
and Financial Intelligence. 18
(c) AUTHORIZATION AMENDMENT.—Section 19
310(d)(1) of title 31, United States Code, is amended by 20
striking ‘‘such sums as may be necessary for fiscal years 21
2002, 2003, 2004, and 2005’’ and inserting ‘‘$85,844,000 22
for fiscal year 2008 and such sums as may be necessary 23
for each of the fiscal years 2009 and 2010’’. 24
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SEC. 403. EXCHANGE PROGRAMS WITH THE PEOPLE OF 1
IRAN. 2
(a) SENSE OF CONGRESS.—It is the sense of the Con-3
gress that the United States should seek to enhance its 4
friendship with the people of Iran, particularly by identi-5
fying young people of Iran to come to the United States 6
under United States exchange programs. 7
(b) EXCHANGE PROGRAMS AUTHORIZED.—The 8
President is authorized to carry out exchange programs 9
with the people of Iran, particularly the young people of 10
Iran. Such programs shall be carried out to the extent 11
practicable in a manner consistent with the eligibility for 12
assistance requirements specified in section 302(b) of the 13
Iran Freedom Support Act (Public Law 109–293). 14
(c) AUTHORIZATION.—Of the amounts available to 15
the Department of State for ‘‘Educational and Cultural 16
Exchanges’’ to carry out the Mutual Educational and Cul-17
tural Exchange Act of 1961, there is authorized to be ap-18
propriated to the President to carry out this section the 19
sum of $10,000,000 for fiscal year 2008. 20
SEC. 404. REDUCING CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE WORLD 21
BANK. 22
The President of the United States shall reduce the 23
total amount otherwise payable on behalf of the United 24
States to the International Bank for Reconstruction and 25
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Development for each fiscal year by the percentage rep-1
resented by—2
(1) the total of the amounts provided by the 3
Bank to entities in Iran, or for projects and activi-4
ties in Iran, in the then-preceding fiscal year; di-5
vided by 6
(2) the total of the amounts provided by the 7
Bank to all entities, or for all projects and activities, 8
in the then-preceding fiscal year. 9
SEC. 405. RESTRICTIONS ON NUCLEAR COOPERATION WITH 10
COUNTRIES ASSISTING THE NUCLEAR PRO-11
GRAM OF IRAN. 12
(a) IN GENERAL.—13
(1) RESTRICTION.—Notwithstanding any other 14
provision of law or any international agreement—15
(A) no agreement for cooperation between 16
the United States and the government of any 17
country that is assisting the nuclear program of 18
Iran or transferring advanced conventional 19
weapons or missiles to Iran may be submitted 20
to the President or to Congress pursuant to 21
section 123 of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 22
(42 U.S.C. 2153), 23
(B) no such agreement may enter into 24
force with such country, 25
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(C) no license may be issued for export di-1
rectly or indirectly to such country of any nu-2
clear material, facilities, components, or other 3
goods, services, or technology that would be 4
subject to such agreement, and 5
(D) no approval may be given for the 6
transfer or retransfer directly or indirectly to 7
such country of any nuclear material, facilities, 8
components, or other goods, services, or tech-9
nology that would be subject to such agreement, 10
until the President makes the determination and re-11
port under paragraph (2). 12
(2) DETERMINATION AND REPORT.—The deter-13
mination and report referred to in paragraph (1) are 14
a determination and report by the President, sub-15
mitted to the Committee on Foreign Relations of the 16
Senate and the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the 17
House of Representatives, that—18
(A) Iran has ceased its efforts to design, 19
develop, or acquire a nuclear explosive device or 20
related materials or technology; or 21
(B) the government of the country that is 22
assisting the nuclear program of Iran or trans-23
ferring advanced conventional weapons or mis-24
siles to Iran—25
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(i) has suspended all nuclear assist-1
ance to Iran and all transfers of advanced 2
conventional weapons and missiles to Iran; 3
and 4
(ii) is committed to maintaining that 5
suspension until Iran has implemented 6
measures that would permit the President 7
to make the determination described in 8
subparagraph (A). 9
(b) CONSTRUCTION.—The restrictions in subsection 10
(a)—11
(1) shall apply in addition to all other applica-12
ble procedures, requirements, and restrictions con-13
tained in the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 and other 14
laws; and 15
(2) shall not be construed as affecting the valid-16
ity of agreements for cooperation that are in effect 17
on the date of the enactment of this Act. 18
(c) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 19
(1) AGREEMENT FOR COOPERATION.—The term 20
‘‘agreement for cooperation’’ has the meaning given 21
that term in section 11 b. of the Atomic Energy Act 22
of 1954 (42 U.S.C. 2014(b)). 23
(2) ASSISTING THE NUCLEAR PROGRAM OF 24
IRAN.—The term ‘‘assisting the nuclear program of 25
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Iran’’ means the intentional transfer to Iran by a 1
government, or by a person subject to the jurisdic-2
tion of a government with the knowledge and acqui-3
escence of that government, of goods, services, or 4
technology listed on the Nuclear Suppliers Group 5
Guidelines for the Export of Nuclear Material, 6
Equipment and Technology (published by the Inter-7
national Atomic Energy Agency as Information Cir-8
cular INFCIRC/254/Rev. 3/Part 1, and subsequent 9
revisions), or the Nuclear Suppliers Group Guide-10
lines for Transfers of Nuclear-Related Dual-Use 11
Equipment, Material, and Related Technology (pub-12
lished by the International Atomic Energy Agency as 13
Information Circular INFCIR/254/Rev. 3/Part 2, 14
and subsequent revisions). 15
(3) COUNTRY THAT IS ASSISTING THE NU-16
CLEAR PROGRAM OF IRAN OR TRANSFERRING AD-17
VANCED CONVENTIONAL WEAPONS OR MISSILES TO 18
IRAN.—The term ‘‘country that is assisting the nu-19
clear program of Iran or transferring advanced con-20
ventional weapons or missiles to Iran’’ means—21
(A) the Russian Federation; and 22
(B) any other country determined by the 23
President to be assisting the nuclear program 24
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of Iran or transferring advanced conventional 1
weapons or missiles to Iran. 2
(4) TRANSFERRING ADVANCED CONVENTIONAL 3
WEAPONS OR MISSILES TO IRAN.—The term ‘‘trans-4
ferring advanced conventional weapons or missiles to 5
Iran’’ means the intentional transfer to Iran by a 6
government, or by a person subject to the jurisdic-7
tion of a government with the knowledge and acqui-8
escence of that government, of goods, services, or 9
technology listed on—10
(A) the Wassenaar Arrangement list of 11
Dual Use Goods and Technologies and Muni-12
tions list of July 12, 1996, and subsequent revi-13
sions; or 14
(B) the Missile Technology Control Regime 15
Equipment and Technology Annex of June 11, 16
1996, and subsequent revisions. 17
(d) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendment made by 18
subsection (a) shall apply to expense paid or incurred on 19
or after January 1, 2007. 20
TITLE V—MISCELLANEOUS 21
PROVISIONS 22
SEC. 501. TERMINATION. 23
(a) TERMINATION.—The restrictions provided in sec-24
tions 203, 404, and 405 shall cease to be effective with 25
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respect to Iran on the date on which the President deter-1
mines and certifies to the appropriate congressional com-2
mittees that Iran—3
(1) has ceased its efforts to design, develop, 4
manufacture, or acquire—5
(A) a nuclear explosive device or related 6
materials and technology; 7
(B) chemical and biological weapons; and 8
(C) ballistic missiles and ballistic missile 9
launch technology; 10
(2) has been removed from the list of countries 11
the governments of which have been determined, for 12
purposes of section 6(j) of the Export Administra-13
tion Act of 1979 (50 U.S.C. 2405(j)), section 620A 14
of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, section 40 of 15
the Arms Export Control Act, or any other provision 16
of law, to have repeatedly provided support for acts 17
of international terrorism; and 18
(3) poses no significant threat to United States 19
national security, interests, or allies. 20
(b) DEFINITION.—In subsection (a), the term ‘‘ap-21
propriate congressional committees’’ means the Com-22
mittee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives 23
and the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate.24
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