§8514 Imposition of Sanctions on Certain Persons Who Are Responsible for or Complicit in Human Rights Abuses Committed Against Citizens of Iran or Their Family Members After the June 12, 2009, Elections in Iran

Summary

The President must impose the listed penalties on people named as responsible for serious human rights abuses against Iranian citizens or their families on or after June 12, 2009. Not later than 90 days after July 1, 2010, the President must send a list of those Iranian government officials or people acting for that government (including members of groups like Ansar-e-Hezbollah and Basij-e Mostaz’afin) to the appropriate congressional committees. The list must be based on credible evidence, can include a classified annex, and the unclassified part must be posted on the Department of the Treasury and Department of State websites. The President must update the list not later than 270 days after July 1, 2010, every 180 days after that, and whenever new information appears. The President must consider credible information from other countries and nongovernmental groups, including ones in Iran. The penalties include being banned from getting a U.S. visa and sanctions under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, such as blocking property and stopping financial and trade transactions, with rules the President may make and exceptions needed to follow the United Nations Headquarters agreement (signed June 26, 1947, entered into force November 21, 1947) and other international obligations. The penalties end when the President certifies to the same congressional committees that Iran has unconditionally released all political prisoners (including those detained after the June 12, 2009 election), stopped violence, unlawful detention, torture, and abuse of peaceful political activity, carried out a transparent investigation and prosecuted those responsible for killings, arrests, and abuse after that election, and publicly committed to and is making real progress on an independent judiciary and the human rights in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.