22 U.S.C. § 8711 — Sense of Congress on enforcement of multilateral sanctions regime and expansion and implementation of sanctions laws

submitted 14 years ago by Pub. L. 112-158 to r/title-22-FOREIGN-RELATIONS-AND-INTERCOURSE · 455 words · no verdicts yet

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Congress says the U.S. should combine sanctions, diplomacy, and military options to stop Iran from getting nuclear weapons. It calls for fully enforcing existing sanctions and expanding them to new sectors. It also wants a stronger effort to stop Iran from evading sanctions.

This section is a formal statement of Congress's opinion — it does not create new legal requirements. Congress says the goal of stopping Iran from getting a nuclear weapon should be pursued through a full plan: economic sanctions, diplomacy, and military planning and options together. Congress says this matches what President Barack Obama said in his 2012 State of the Union address — that the U.S. will not let Iran get a nuclear weapon and will keep every option available. Congress lists the economic steps it wants taken: (1) Enforcing the sanctions rules that many countries already agreed to follow, right away. (2) Fully and quickly carrying out every sanctions law, including ones created or expanded by this Act. This should happen through: (A) Closer watching by the President and officials the President picks, including the Secretaries of the Treasury and State and senior intelligence officials. (B) Using more of the special emergency powers under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act and other sanctions laws. (C) Moving staff and resources within the Treasury, State, and Commerce Departments — and intelligence agencies when needed — to enforce sanctions. (D) Working more closely with other countries on enforcing sanctions. (3) Quickly considering new sanctions in these areas: (A) Companies that provide Iran with energy-related services. (B) Companies that provide Iran with insurance or reinsurance. (C) Companies that provide Iran with shipping services. (D) Iranian banks that have not yet been sanctioned but may be helping sanctioned Iranian banks move money. (4) Focusing on stopping Iran from dodging sanctions, including: (A) Checking that telecom, internet, and satellite companies — in Iran or elsewhere — aren't helping Iran evade sanctions or violate human rights. (B) Checking the activities of financial institutions, other businesses, and government agencies — in Iran or elsewhere — that haven't been sanctioned yet. (C) Constantly studying Iran's energy, national security, financial, and telecom sectors to see how well the sanctions are working and fix any gaps quickly.

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It is the sense of Congress that the goal of compelling Iran to abandon efforts to acquire a nuclear weapons capability and other threatening activities can be effectively achieved through a comprehensive policy that includes economic sanctions, diplomacy, and military planning, capabilities and options, and that this objective is consistent with the one stated by President Barack Obama in the 2012 State of the Union Address: “Let there be no doubt: America is determined to prevent Iran from getting a nuclear weapon, and I will take no options off the table to achieve that goal”. Among the economic measures to be taken are—

(1)

prompt enforcement of the current multilateral sanctions regime with respect to Iran;

(2)

full, timely, and vigorous implementation of all sanctions enacted into law, including sanctions imposed or expanded by this Act or amendments made by this Act, through—

(A)

intensified monitoring by the President and the designees of the President, including the Secretary of the Treasury, the Secretary of State, and senior officials in the intelligence community (as defined in section 401a(4) of title 50), as appropriate;

(B)

more extensive use of extraordinary authorities provided for under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.) and other sanctions laws;

(C)

reallocation of resources to provide the personnel necessary, within the Department of the Treasury, the Department of State, and the Department of Commerce, and, where appropriate, the intelligence community, to apply and enforce sanctions; and

(D)

expanded cooperation with international sanctions enforcement efforts;

(3)

urgent consideration of the expansion of existing sanctions with respect to such areas as—

(A)

the provision of energy-related services to Iran;

(B)

the provision of insurance and reinsurance services to Iran;

(C)

the provision of shipping services to Iran; and

(D)

those Iranian financial institutions not yet designated for the imposition of sanctions that may be acting as intermediaries for Iranian financial institutions that are designated for the imposition of sanctions; and

(4)

a focus on countering Iran’s efforts to evade sanctions, including—

(A)

the activities of telecommunications, Internet, and satellite service providers, in and outside of Iran, to ensure that such providers are not participating in or facilitating, directly or indirectly, the evasion of the sanctions regime with respect to Iran or violations of the human rights of the people of Iran;

(B)

the activities of financial institutions or other businesses or government agencies, in or outside of Iran, not yet designated for the imposition of sanctions; and

(C)

urgent and ongoing evaluation of Iran’s energy, national security, financial, and telecommunications sectors, to gauge the effects of, and possible defects in, particular sanctions, with prompt efforts to correct any gaps in the existing sanctions regime with respect to Iran.

Source credit: (Pub. L. 112–158, title I, § 101, Aug. 10, 2012, 126 Stat. 1216.)

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2012Enacted · Pub. L. 112-158 · 126 Stat. 1216

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