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114TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 3457 

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 

OCTOBER 5, 2015 

Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations 

AN ACT 

To prohibit the lifting of sanctions on Iran until the Government of Iran pays the judgments against it for acts 

of terrorism, and for other purposes. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 


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1 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

2 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Justice for Victims 

3 of Iranian Terrorism Act’’. 

4 SEC. 2. PROHIBITION ON LIFTING OF SANCTIONS ON IRAN 

5 PENDING PAYMENT OF CERTAIN JUDG6 MENTS. 

7 (a) IN GENERAL.—Notwithstanding any other provi8 sion of law, the President may not take any of the actions 

9 described in subsection (b) until the President has cer10 tified to the Congress that the Government of Iran has 

11 paid each judgment against Iran that is described in sub12 section (c). 

13 (b) ACTIONS DESCRIBED.— 

14 (1) IN GENERAL.—The actions described in this 

15 subsection are the following: 

16 (A) To waive, suspend, reduce, provide re17 lief from, or otherwise limit the application of 

18 sanctions described in paragraph (2) or refrain 

19 from applying any such sanctions. 

20 (B) To remove a foreign person listed in 

21 Attachment 3 or Attachment 4 to Annex II of 

22 the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action from 

23 the list of specially designated nationals and 

24 blocked persons maintained by the Office of 

25 Foreign Asset Control of the Department of the 

26 Treasury. 


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1 (2) SANCTIONS DESCRIBED.—The sanctions de2 scribed in this paragraph are— 

3 (A) the sanctions described in sections 4 

4 through 7.9 of Annex II of the Joint Com5 prehensive Plan of Action; and 

6 (B) the sanctions described in any other 

7 agreement related to the nuclear program of 

8 Iran that includes the United States, commits 

9 the United States to take action, or pursuant to 

10 which the United States commits or otherwise 

11 agrees to take action, regardless of the form it 

12 takes, whether a political commitment or other13 wise, and regardless of whether it is legally 

14 binding or not. 

15 (c) JUDGMENTS.—A judgment is a judgment de16 scribed in this subsection if it is a final judgment entered 

17 by the courts of the United States or of the States— 

18 (1) that relates to a claim— 

19 (A) that was brought against Iran or its 

20 political subdivisions, agencies, or instrumental21 ities (regardless of whether the claim was also 

22 brought, or the resulting judgment was also en23 tered, against another defendant); and 

24 (B) for which the court determined that 

25 Iran (or its political subdivisions, agencies, or 


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1 instrumentalities, as the case may be) was not 

2 immune from the jurisdiction of the courts of 

3 the United States or of the States under section 

4 1605A, or section 1605(a)(7) (as such section 

5 was in effect on January 27, 2008), of title 28, 

6 United States Code; and 

7 (2) that was entered during the period begin8 ning on April 24, 1996, and ending on the date of 

9 the enactment of this Act. 

10 (d) JOINT COMPREHENSIVE PLAN OF ACTION DE11 SCRIBED.—In this section, the term ‘‘Joint Comprehensive 

12 Plan of Action’’ means the Joint Comprehensive Plan of 

13 Action, agreed to at Vienna on July 14, 2015, by Iran 

14 and by the People’s Republic of China, France, Germany, 

15 the Russian Federation, the United Kingdom and the 

16 United States, with the High Representative of the Euro17 pean Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, and 

18 all implementing materials and agreements related to the 

19 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action. 

Passed the House of Representatives October 1, 

2015. 

Attest: KAREN L. HAAS, 

Clerk. 


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