§8711 — Title 22 Foreign Relations and Intercourse | U.S. Code

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Congress says the United States must use economic sanctions, diplomacy, and military planning to pressure Iran to stop trying to get nuclear weapons and to stop other dangerous actions. To do that, it calls for quick enforcement of international sanctions and full, timely use of all U.S. sanctions laws, including those added by this Act. Congress wants tighter monitoring by the President and top officials (like the Secretaries of the Treasury and State and senior intelligence leaders), broader use of emergency economic powers, more staff and resources at Treasury, State, Commerce, and intelligence agencies, and closer work with other countries. It also urges urgently expanding sanctions in areas such as energy services, insurance and reinsurance, shipping, and banks that act as intermediaries, and focusing on stopping ways Iran might evade sanctions—by checking telecom and internet providers, unlisted banks and businesses, and by continually reviewing Iran’s energy, security, finance, and telecom sectors to find and fix gaps.

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It is the sense of Congress that the goal of compelling Iran to abandon efforts to acquire a nuclear weapons capability and other threatening activities can be effectively achieved through a comprehensive policy that includes economic sanctions, diplomacy, and military planning, capabilities and options, and that this objective is consistent with the one stated by President Barack Obama in the 2012 State of the Union Address: “Let there be no doubt: America is determined to prevent Iran from getting a nuclear weapon, and I will take no options off the table to achieve that goal”. Among the economic measures to be taken are—

(1)prompt enforcement of the current multilateral sanctions regime with respect to Iran;

(2)full, timely, and vigorous implementation of all sanctions enacted into law, including sanctions imposed or expanded by this Act or amendments made by this Act, through—

(A)intensified monitoring by the President and the designees of the President, including the Secretary of the Treasury, the Secretary of State, and senior officials in the intelligence community (as defined in section 401a(4) of title 50), as appropriate;

(B)more extensive use of extraordinary authorities provided for under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.) and other sanctions laws;

(C)reallocation of resources to provide the personnel necessary, within the Department of the Treasury, the Department of State, and the Department of Commerce, and, where appropriate, the intelligence community, to apply and enforce sanctions; and

(D)expanded cooperation with international sanctions enforcement efforts;

(3)urgent consideration of the expansion of existing sanctions with respect to such areas as—

(A)the provision of energy-related services to Iran;

(B)the provision of insurance and reinsurance services to Iran;

(C)the provision of shipping services to Iran; and

(D)those Iranian financial institutions not yet designated for the imposition of sanctions that may be acting as intermediaries for Iranian financial institutions that are designated for the imposition of sanctions; and

(4)a focus on countering Iran’s efforts to evade sanctions, including—

(A)the activities of telecommunications, Internet, and satellite service providers, in and outside of Iran, to ensure that such providers are not participating in or facilitating, directly or indirectly, the evasion of the sanctions regime with respect to Iran or violations of the human rights of the people of Iran;

(B)the activities of financial institutions or other businesses or government agencies, in or outside of Iran, not yet designated for the imposition of sanctions; and

(C)urgent and ongoing evaluation of Iran’s energy, national security, financial, and telecommunications sectors, to gauge the effects of, and possible defects in, particular sanctions, with prompt efforts to correct any gaps in the existing sanctions regime with respect to Iran.

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Termination of SectionFor termination of section, see section 8785(a) of this title.

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This Act, referred to in par. (2), is Pub. L. 112–158, Aug. 10, 2012, 126 Stat. 1214, known as the Iran Threat Reduction and Syria Human Rights Act of 2012, which is classified principally to this chapter. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see

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note set out under section 8701 of this title and Tables. The International Emergency Economic Powers Act, referred to in par. (2)(B), is title II of Pub. L. 95–223, Dec. 28, 1977, 91 Stat. 1626, which is classified generally to chapter 35 (§ 1701 et seq.) of Title 50, War and National Defense. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see

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note set out under section 1701 of Title 50 and Tables.

§8711 Sense of Congress on enforcement of multilateral sanctions regime and expansion and implementation of sanctions laws

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