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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