§8727 Identification Of, and Immigration Restrictions On, Senior Officials of the Government of Iran and Their Family Members

Summary

The President must publish a list within 180 days after August 10, 2012, and then every year. The list names senior Iranian officials who are involved in illicit nuclear or weapons proliferation, support for international terrorism, or serious human rights abuses, and it also names their family members. A “senior official” includes the Supreme Leader, the President, Cabinet members, members of the Assembly of Experts, senior Intelligence Ministry officials, and senior members of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps (including paramilitary groups like Ansar-e-Hezbollah and Basij-e Motaz’afin). People on the list must be denied U.S. visas and barred from entering the United States, except when allowing them in is needed to meet U.S. obligations under the Agreement about U.N. headquarters (signed June 26, 1947, effective November 21, 1947) or other international duties. The President can waive the ban if it is essential to U.S. national interests, but must notify Congress at least 7 days before the waiver starts and explain why.