§8514a Imposition of Sanctions with Respect to the Transfer of Goods or Technologies to Iran That Are Likely to Be Used to Commit Human Rights Abuses

Summary

The President must put people on a sanctions list and punish them if they knowingly send, help send, or provide services for certain goods or technologies to Iran or to Iranian entities or nationals after August 10, 2012. Not later than 90 days after August 10, 2012, the President must give Congress that list. The rule applies whether the work was done under contracts made before, on, or after August 10, 2012. The covered goods include weapons and crowd-control items (like firearms, rubber bullets, batons, pepper spray, stun devices, tear gas, water cannons), surveillance gear, and other “sensitive technology.” The President can remove someone from the list if he certifies the person has stopped the activity and gives reliable assurances they will not do it again. The list must be unclassified (but can have a classified annex) and the public part must be posted on the Treasury and State websites. The President must update the list when required and as new information appears. People on the list get the penalties called for in section 8514(c) of the law. If the transfers or services involved Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps, the President must use those penalties and may also add other sanctions from among those in section 6(a) of the Iran Sanctions Act of 1996, as the President decides.