§9405 — Title 22 Foreign Relations and Intercourse | U.S. Code

Summary

The Secretary of State must send Congress, within 90 days after August 2, 2017 and then every year, a list of people the Secretary finds, based on credible evidence since August 2, 2017, to have carried out or helped carry out extrajudicial killings, torture, or other serious human rights abuses against people in Iran who try to expose government wrongdoing or who seek basic rights and freedoms (like religion, speech, assembly, fair trials, and democratic elections). The list also covers people acting for a foreign person in those matters. Under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.), the President may block all transactions in any property or interests in property of those listed people if the property is in the United States, comes into the United States, or is held or controlled by a U.S. person. Anyone who breaks, tries to break, or helps break these blocking rules or related orders or licenses faces the penalties in subsections (b) and (c) of section 206 of that Act (50 U.S.C. 1705).

Title 22, §9405

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(a)Not later than 90 days after August 2, 2017, and annually thereafter, the Secretary of State shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees a list of each person the Secretary determines, based on credible evidence, on or after August 2, 2017—

(1)is responsible for extrajudicial killings, torture, or other gross violations of internationally recognized human rights committed against individuals in Iran who seek—

(A)to expose illegal activity carried out by officials of the Government of Iran; or

(B)to obtain, exercise, defend, or promote internationally recognized human rights and freedoms, such as the freedoms of religion, expression, association, and assembly, and the rights to a fair trial and democratic elections; or

(2)acts as an agent of or on behalf of a foreign person in a matter relating to an activity described in paragraph (1).

(b)(1)The President may, in accordance with the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.), block all transactions in all property and interests in property of a person on the list required by subsection (a) if such property and interests in property are in the United States, come within the United States, or are or come within the possession or control of a United States person.

(2)A person that violates, attempts to violate, conspires to violate, or causes a violation of paragraph (1) or any regulation, license, or order issued to carry out paragraph (1) shall be subject to the penalties set forth in subsections (b) and (c) of section 206 of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1705) to the same extent as a person that commits an unlawful act described in subsection (a) of that section.

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The International Emergency Economic Powers Act, referred to in subsec. (b)(1), 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.

§9405 Imposition of additional sanctions with respect to persons responsible for human rights abuses