22 U.S.C. § 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

(a) The President must place sanctions on every person named on the list described in (b). (b) List of people responsible for human rights abuses. (1) Within 90 days after July 1, 2010, the President must give Congress a list of Iranian officials — or people acting for Iran's government, including paramilitary groups like Ansar-e-Hezbollah and Basij-e Mostaz'afin — who the President finds, based on credible evidence, are responsible for or helped order serious human rights abuses against Iranian citizens or their families on or after June 12, 2009. This counts even if the abuse happened outside Iran. (2) The President must send Congress an updated list (A) no later than 270 days after July 1, 2010, and every 180 days after that, and (B) any time new information comes in. (3) Form of the report. (A) The list itself must be unclassified, though it can come with a classified annex. (B) The Treasury and State Departments must post the unclassified part of the list publicly on their websites. (4) When building the list, the President must consider reliable data already gathered by other countries and by nongovernmental groups — including groups inside Iran — that track Iran's human rights record. (c) The sanctions are: denying the person a visa to enter the United States, and sanctions under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, such as blocking their property and restricting financial transactions or imports and exports. The President can write rules for these sanctions, including exceptions needed to honor the 1947 agreement between the United Nations and the United States about the UN's headquarters, and other international obligations. (d) These sanctions end once the President certifies to Congress that Iran's government has done all of the following: (1) freed all political prisoners, including people detained after the June 12, 2009 election; (2) stopped using violence, unlawful detention, torture, and abuse against peaceful political activists; (3) run a transparent investigation into the killings, arrests, and abuse that followed the 2009 election, and prosecuted the people responsible; and (4) publicly committed to, and is visibly making progress toward, (A) building an independent judiciary and (B) respecting the human rights and freedoms in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.