S556119th CongressWALLET

Enhanced Iran Sanctions Act of 2025

Sponsored By: Senator Dan Sullivan

Introduced

Summary

Block Iran's oil and petrochemical revenue. This bill would target foreign firms, banks, insurers, and shipping networks that process, finance, or sell Iranian oil, gas, LNG, or petrochemical products and expand U.S. sanctions and visa penalties.

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  • Foreign companies, banks, insurers, and flagging registries would face U.S. asset-blocking sanctions under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act when they knowingly handle Iranian petroleum or related products. It also reaches subsidiaries, successors, officers, and immediate family when a person owns or controls 50 percent or more.
  • Designated foreign individuals would be barred from U.S. visas and have existing visas and entry documents revoked immediately.
  • The bill would set up an interagency working group to coordinate enforcement and ally cooperation and would expand private-sector reporting on sanction evasion. The President could grant waivers for 180 days, renewable up to a total of two years.

Bill Overview

Analyzed Economic Effects

3 provisions identified: 1 benefits, 1 costs, 1 mixed.

New Iran sanctions working group

If enacted, the Secretary of State would have to set up an Interagency Working Group on Iranian Sanctions within 180 days. The President would name the group's Chair. The group must include representatives from State, Treasury, and Justice and other agencies as needed. The group would try to form a multilateral contact group with allied countries to share information on sanctions, exposed evasion practices, and newly designated entities. It would coordinate measures to curb Iranian uranium enrichment, missile production, and support for terrorism.

Tighter Iran energy sanctions rules

If enacted, the President would be required to sanction foreign persons found knowingly involved in processing, exporting, or selling oil, gas, LNG, or related petrochemicals from Iran. Covered people would include subsidiaries, successors, 50%+ owners or those they own, corporate officers, and immediate family. The bill would let the President block and ban transactions in property of sanctioned persons under IEEPA and use IEEPA sections 203 and 205 to implement that blocking. People who break those blocking rules could face IEEPA penalties. The bill also says importation of physical goods alone would not trigger sanctions, and it defines "goods" to include materials and test equipment but not technical data.

Visa bans and presidential waivers

If enacted, a person sanctioned under this bill would be barred from getting a U.S. visa or entry and would be inadmissible. Any current visa or entry papers for that person would be revoked immediately and would cancel other valid entry documents. There are narrow exceptions for admission needed to comply with the U.N. Headquarters Agreement or to assist authorized law enforcement. The President could waive sanctions case-by-case for up to 180 days, and renew in 180-day steps up to two years total, but the waiver power ends on February 1, 2029. Waivers must include certifications, detailed justifications, and a plan to phase out the waiver when renewed.

Sponsors & CoSponsors

Sponsor

Dan Sullivan

AK • R

Cosponsors

  • Richard Blumenthal

    CT • D

    Sponsored 2/12/2025

  • John Cornyn

    TX • R

    Sponsored 2/12/2025

  • Pete Ricketts

    NE • R

    Sponsored 2/12/2025

  • Mark Warner

    VA • D

    Sponsored 2/26/2025

  • Jacky Rosen

    NV • D

    Sponsored 2/27/2025

  • Ashley Moody

    FL • R

    Sponsored 2/27/2025

  • Josh Hawley

    MO • R

    Sponsored 2/27/2025

  • Jim Banks

    IN • R

    Sponsored 2/27/2025

  • Chuck Grassley

    IA • R

    Sponsored 2/27/2025

  • Rick Scott

    FL • R

    Sponsored 2/27/2025

  • Jon Ossoff

    GA • D

    Sponsored 3/3/2025

  • John Curtis

    UT • R

    Sponsored 3/4/2025

  • Ruben Gallego

    AZ • D

    Sponsored 3/4/2025

  • Timothy Kaine

    VA • D

    Sponsored 3/4/2025

  • Bill Cassidy

    LA • R

    Sponsored 3/11/2025

  • Kirsten Gillibrand

    NY • D

    Sponsored 3/11/2025

  • Ron Wyden

    OR • D

    Sponsored 3/11/2025

  • Roger Marshall

    KS • R

    Sponsored 3/24/2025

  • Adam Schiff

    CA • D

    Sponsored 3/24/2025

  • Catherine Cortez Masto

    NV • D

    Sponsored 3/25/2025

  • Angela Alsobrooks

    MD • D

    Sponsored 3/25/2025

  • David McCormick

    PA • R

    Sponsored 3/26/2025

  • Amy Klobuchar

    MN • D

    Sponsored 3/31/2025

  • Jon Husted

    OH • R

    Sponsored 4/3/2025

  • Jerry Moran

    KS • R

    Sponsored 4/9/2025

  • Shelley Capito

    WV • R

    Sponsored 4/28/2025

  • Kevin Cramer

    ND • R

    Sponsored 5/6/2025

  • Katie Britt

    AL • R

    Sponsored 5/6/2025

  • John Barrasso

    WY • R

    Sponsored 5/8/2025

  • John Boozman

    AR • R

    Sponsored 5/8/2025

  • Ted Budd

    NC • R

    Sponsored 5/12/2025

  • Maria Cantwell

    WA • D

    Sponsored 5/19/2025

  • James Lankford

    OK • R

    Sponsored 5/19/2025

  • Susan Collins

    ME • R

    Sponsored 5/20/2025

  • James Justice

    WV • R

    Sponsored 5/20/2025

  • Marsha Blackburn

    TN • R

    Sponsored 6/10/2025

  • Mike Rounds

    SD • R

    Sponsored 6/26/2025

  • Lisa Murkowski

    AK • R

    Sponsored 7/16/2025

  • Mike Crapo

    ID • R

    Sponsored 7/28/2025

  • John Fetterman

    PA • D

    Sponsored 9/10/2025

  • Markwayne Mullin

    OK • R

    Sponsored 9/17/2025

  • Steve Daines

    MT • R

    Sponsored 9/30/2025

  • Tom Cotton

    AR • R

    Sponsored 10/3/2025

  • Sen. McConnell, Mitch [R-KY]

    KY • R

    Sponsored 10/14/2025

  • Ted Cruz

    TX • R

    Sponsored 12/9/2025

  • John Hoeven

    ND • R

    Sponsored 12/16/2025

  • Cynthia Lummis

    WY • R

    Sponsored 12/16/2025

  • Sen. Luján, Ben Ray [D-NM]

    NM • D

    Sponsored 1/12/2026

  • Cory Booker

    NJ • D

    Sponsored 2/25/2026

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