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Title 22 — Foreign Relations and IntercourseRelease 119-73not60

§9409 Report on United States Citizens Detained by Iran

Title 22 › Chapter 101— COUNTERING IRAN’S DESTABILIZING ACTIVITIES › § 9409

Last updated Apr 5, 2026|Official source

Summary

Within 90 days after August 2, 2017, and every 180 days after that, the President must send a report on U.S. citizens, including dual nationals, who are detained by Iran or groups it supports. The report must name any Iranian officials involved, summarize what the U.S. has done to win their release, be unclassified, and may include a classified annex. The report must go to these Senate recipients: Committee on Finance; Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs; Committee on Foreign Relations; and the Senate majority and minority leaders; and to these House recipients: Committee on Ways and Means; Committee on Financial Services; Committee on Foreign Affairs; the Speaker; and the House majority and minority leaders.

Full Legal Text

Title 22, §9409

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(a)Not later than 90 days after August 2, 2017, and every 180 days thereafter, the President shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees and leadership a report on United States citizens, including United States citizens who are also citizens of other countries, detained by Iran or groups supported by Iran that includes—
(1)information regarding any officials of the Government of Iran involved in any way in the detentions; and
(2)a summary of efforts the United States Government has taken to secure the swift release of those United States citizens.
(b)The report required by subsection (a) shall be submitted in unclassified form, but may include a classified annex.
(c)In this section, the term “appropriate congressional committees and leadership” means—
(1)the Committee on Finance, the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, the Committee on Foreign Relations, and the majority and minority leaders of the Senate; and
(2)the Committee on Ways and Means, the Committee on Financial Services, the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and the Speaker, the majority leader, and the minority leader of the House of Representatives.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Executive Documents

Delegation of Functions For delegation of functions of President under this section to the Secretary of State, see section 1(a) of Memorandum of President of the United States, Oct. 11, 2017, 82 F.R. 50051, set out in a note under section 9403 of this title.

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Citation

22 U.S.C. § 9409

Title 22 — Foreign Relations and Intercourse

Last Updated

Apr 5, 2026

Release point: 119-73not60