Title 22 — Foreign Relations and IntercourseRelease 119-73

§8752 Clarification of sensitive technologies for purposes of procurement ban under Comprehensive Iran Sanctions, Accountability, and Divestment Act of 2010

Title 22 › Chapter CHAPTER 94— - IRAN THREAT REDUCTION AND SYRIA HUMAN RIGHTS › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER IV— - MEASURES TO PROMOTE HUMAN RIGHTS › § 8752

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Secretary of State must, no later than 90 days after August 10, 2012, write and publish rules in the Federal Register that explain what counts as "sensitive technology" under the Iran sanctions law. The rules must focus on new jamming, monitoring, and spying tools for mobile phones and the Internet, identify technologies that help Iran build its own way to block or watch communications, and be reviewed and updated as needed, but at least once each year.

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Title 22, §8752

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The Secretary of State shall—

(1)not later than 90 days after August 10, 2012, issue guidelines to further describe the technologies that may be considered “sensitive technology” for purposes of section 106 of the Comprehensive Iran Sanctions, Accountability, and Divestment Act of 2010 (22 U.S.C. 8515), with special attention to new forms of sophisticated jamming, monitoring, and surveillance technology relating to mobile telecommunications and the Internet, and publish those guidelines in the Federal Register;

(2)determine the types of technologies that enable any indigenous capabilities that Iran has to disrupt and monitor information and communications in that country, and consider adding descriptions of those items to the guidelines; and

(3)periodically review, but in no case less than once each year, the guidelines and, if necessary, amend the guidelines on the basis of technological developments and new information regarding transfers of technologies to Iran and the development of Iran’s indigenous capabilities to disrupt and monitor information and communications in Iran.

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Citation

22 U.S.C. § 8752

Title 22 — Foreign Relations and Intercourse

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73