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(1) by inserting ‘‘, 105A(a), or 105B(a)’’ after 
‘‘105(a)’’; and 
(2) by inserting ‘‘, 105A(b), or 105B(b)’’ after 
‘‘105(b)’’. 
Subtitle B—Additional Measures to 
Promote Human Rights 
SEC. 411. CODIFICATION OF SANCTIONS WITH RESPECT TO 
GRAVE HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES BY THE GOVERN-
MENTS OF IRAN AND SYRIA USING INFORMATION 
TECHNOLOGY. 
United States sanctions with respect to Iran and Syria 
provided for in Executive Order 13606 (77 Fed. Reg. 24571), 
as in effect on the day before the date of the enactment of 
this Act, shall remain in effect— 
(1) with respect to Iran, until the date that is 30 
days after the date on which the President submits to 
Congress the certification described in section 401(a) of 
the Comprehensive Iran Sanctions, Accountability, and 
Divestment Act of 2010 (22 U.S.C. 8551(a)); and 
(2) with respect to Syria, until the date on which 
the provisions of and sanctions imposed pursuant to title 
VII terminate pursuant to section 706.
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SEC. 412. CLARIFICATION OF SENSITIVE TECHNOLOGIES FOR 
PURPOSES OF PROCUREMENT BAN UNDER COM-
PREHENSIVE IRAN SANCTIONS, ACCOUNTABILITY, 
AND DIVESTMENT ACT OF 2010. 
The Secretary of State shall— 
(1) not later than 90 days after the date of the en-
actment of this Act, issue guidelines to further describe 
the technologies that may be considered ‘‘sensitive tech-
nology’’ for purposes of section 106 of the Comprehen-
sive Iran Sanctions, Accountability, and Divestment Act 
of 2010 (22 U.S.C. 8515), with special attention to new 
forms of sophisticated jamming, monitoring, and surveil-
lance technology relating to mobile telecommunications 
and the Internet, and publish those guidelines in the 
Federal Register; 
(2) determine the types of technologies that enable 
any indigenous capabilities that Iran has to disrupt and 
monitor information and communications in that coun-
try, and consider adding descriptions of those items to 
the guidelines; and 
(3) periodically review, but in no case less than once 
each year, the guidelines and, if necessary, amend the 
guidelines on the basis of technological developments and 
new information regarding transfers of technologies to 
Iran and the development of Iran’s indigenous capabili-
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ties to disrupt and monitor information and communica-
tions in Iran. 
SEC. 413. EXPEDITED CONSIDERATION OF REQUESTS FOR AU-
THORIZATION OF CERTAIN HUMAN RIGHTS-, HU-
MANITARIAN-, AND DEMOCRACY-RELATED ACTIVI-
TIES WITH RESPECT TO IRAN. 
(a) REQUIREMENT.—The Office of Foreign Assets Con-
trol, in consultation with the Department of State, shall es-
tablish an expedited process for the consideration of complete 
requests for authorization to engage in human rights-, hu-
manitarian-, or democracy-related activities relating to Iran 
that are submitted by— 
(1) entities receiving funds from the Department of 
State to engage in the proposed activity; 
(2) the Broadcasting Board of Governors; and 
(3) other appropriate agencies of the United States 
Government. 
(b) PROCEDURES.—Requests for authorization under 
subsection (a) shall be submitted to the Office of Foreign As-
sets Control in conformance with the Office’s regulations, in-
cluding section 501.801 of title 31, Code of Federal Regula-
tions (commonly known as the Reporting, Procedures and 
Penalties Regulations). Applicants shall fully disclose the par-
ties to the transactions as well as describe the activities to 
be undertaken. License applications involving the exportation
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or reexportation of goods, technology, or software to Iran 
shall include a copy of an official Commodity Classification 
issued by the Department of Commerce, Bureau of Industry 
and Security, as part of the license application. 
(c) FOREIGN POLICY REVIEW.—The Department of 
State shall complete a foreign policy review of a request for 
authorization under subsection (a) not later than 30 days 
after the request is referred to the Department by the Office 
of Foreign Assets Control. 
(d) LICENSE
DETERMINATIONS.—License determina-
tions for complete requests for authorization under subsection 
(a) shall be made not later than 90 days after receipt by the 
Office of Foreign Assets Control, with the following excep-
tions: 
(1) Any requests involving the exportation or re-
exportation to Iran of goods, technology, or software list-
ed on the Commerce Control List maintained pursuant 
to part 774 of title 15, Code of Federal Regulations, 
shall be processed in a manner consistent with the Iran- 
Iraq Arms Non-Proliferation Act of 1992 (title XVI of 
Public Law 102–484) and other applicable provisions of 
law. 
(2) Any other requests presenting unusual or ex-
traordinary circumstances.
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(e) REGULATIONS.—The Secretary of the Treasury may 
prescribe such regulations as are appropriate to carry out 
this section. 
SEC. 414. COMPREHENSIVE STRATEGY TO PROMOTE INTERNET 
FREEDOM AND ACCESS TO INFORMATION IN IRAN. 
Not later than 90 days after the date of the enactment 
of this Act, the Secretary of State, in consultation with the 
Secretary of the Treasury and the heads of other Federal 
agencies, as appropriate, shall submit to the appropriate con-
gressional committees a comprehensive strategy to— 
(1) assist the people of Iran to produce, access, and 
share information freely and safely via the Internet, in-
cluding in Farsi and regional languages; 
(2) support the development of counter-censorship 
technologies that enable the citizens of Iran to undertake 
Internet activities without interference from the Govern-
ment of Iran; 
(3) increase the capabilities and availability of se-
cure mobile and other communications through connec-
tive technology among human rights and democracy ac-
tivists in Iran; 
(4) provide resources for digital safety training for 
media and academic and civil society organizations in 
Iran;
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(5) provide accurate and substantive Internet con-
tent in local languages in Iran; 
(6) increase emergency resources for the most vul-
nerable human rights advocates seeking to organize, 
share information, and support human rights in Iran; 
(7) expand surrogate radio, television, live stream, 
and social network communications inside Iran, includ-
ing— 
(A) by expanding Voice of America’s Persian 
News Network and Radio Free Europe/Radio Lib-
erty’s Radio Farda to provide hourly live news up-
date programming and breaking news coverage ca-
pability 24 hours a day and 7 days a week; and 
(B) by assisting telecommunications and soft-
ware companies that are United States persons to 
comply with the export licensing requirements of 
the United States for the purpose of expanding 
such communications inside Iran; 
(8) expand activities to safely assist and train 
human rights, civil society, and democracy activists in 
Iran to operate effectively and securely; 
(9) identify and utilize all available resources to 
overcome attempts by the Government of Iran to jam or 
otherwise deny international satellite broadcasting sig-
nals;
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science, as appropriate and if requested by the dissidents 
or prisoners themselves or their families. 
TITLE V—MISCELLANEOUS 
SEC. 501. EXCLUSION OF CITIZENS OF IRAN SEEKING EDU-
CATION RELATING TO THE NUCLEAR AND ENERGY 
SECTORS OF IRAN. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of State shall deny a 
visa to, and the Secretary of Homeland Security shall exclude 
from the United States, any alien who is a citizen of Iran 
that the Secretary of State determines seeks to enter the 
United States to participate in coursework at an institution 
of higher education (as defined in section 101(a) of the High-
er Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1001(a))) to prepare 
the alien for a career in the energy sector of Iran or in nu-
clear science or nuclear engineering or a related field in Iran. 
(b) APPLICABILITY.—Subsection (a) applies with respect 
to visa applications filed on or after the date of the enact-
ment of this Act. 
SEC. 502. INTERESTS IN CERTAIN FINANCIAL ASSETS OF IRAN. 
(a) INTERESTS IN BLOCKED ASSETS.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Subject to paragraph (2), not-
withstanding any other provision of law, including any 
provision of law relating to sovereign immunity, and pre-
empting any inconsistent provision of State law, a finan-
cial asset that is—
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(A) held in the United States for a foreign se-
curities intermediary doing business in the United 
States, 
(B) a blocked asset (whether or not subse-
quently unblocked) that is property described in 
subsection (b), and 
(C) equal in value to a financial asset of Iran, 
including an asset of the central bank or monetary 
authority of the Government of Iran or any agency 
or instrumentality of that Government, that such 
foreign securities intermediary or a related inter-
mediary holds abroad, 
shall be subject to execution or attachment in aid of exe-
cution in order to satisfy any judgment to the extent of 
any compensatory damages awarded against Iran for 
damages for personal injury or death caused by an act 
of torture, extrajudicial killing, aircraft sabotage, or hos-
tage-taking, or the provision of material support or re-
sources for such an act. 
(2) COURT DETERMINATION REQUIRED.—In order 
to ensure that Iran is held accountable for paying the 
judgments described in paragraph (1) and in furtherance 
of the broader goals of this Act to sanction Iran, prior 
to an award turning over any asset pursuant to execu-
tion or attachment in aid of execution with respect to
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any judgments against Iran described in paragraph (1), 
the court shall determine whether Iran holds equitable 
title to, or the beneficial interest in, the assets described 
in subsection (b) and that no other person possesses a 
constitutionally protected interest in the assets described 
in subsection (b) under the Fifth Amendment to the 
Constitution of the United States. To the extent the 
court determines that a person other than Iran holds— 
(A) equitable title to, or a beneficial interest in, 
the assets described in subsection (b) (excluding a 
custodial interest of a foreign securities inter-
mediary or a related intermediary that holds the as-
sets abroad for the benefit of Iran), or 
(B) a constitutionally protected interest in the 
assets described in subsection (b), 
such assets shall be available only for execution or at-
tachment in aid of execution to the extent of Iran’s equi-
table title or beneficial interest therein and to the extent 
such execution or attachment does not infringe upon 
such constitutionally protected interest. 
(b) FINANCIAL ASSETS DESCRIBED.—The financial as-
sets described in this section are the financial assets that are 
identified in and the subject of proceedings in the United 
States District Court for the Southern District of New York 
in Peterson et al. v. Islamic Republic of Iran et al., Case No.
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10 Civ. 4518 (BSJ) (GWG), that were restrained by restrain-
ing notices and levies secured by the plaintiffs in those pro-
ceedings, as modified by court order dated June 27, 2008, 
and extended by court orders dated June 23, 2009, May 10, 
2010, and June 11, 2010, so long as such assets remain re-
strained by court order. 
(c) RULES OF CONSTRUCTION.—Nothing in this section 
shall be construed— 
(1) to affect the availability, or lack thereof, of a 
right to satisfy a judgment in any other action against 
a terrorist party in any proceedings other than pro-
ceedings referred to in subsection (b); or 
(2) to apply to assets other than the assets de-
scribed in subsection (b), or to preempt State law, in-
cluding the Uniform Commercial Code, except as ex-
pressly provided in subsection (a)(1). 
(d) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 
(1) BLOCKED ASSET.—The term ‘‘blocked asset’’— 
(A) means any asset seized or frozen by the 
United States under section 5(b) of the Trading 
With the Enemy Act (50 U.S.C. App. 5(b)) or 
under section 202 or 203 of the International 
Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701 
and 1702); and 
(B) does not include property that—
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(i) is subject to a license issued by the 
United States Government for final payment, 
transfer, or disposition by or to a person sub-
ject to the jurisdiction of the United States in 
connection with a transaction for which the 
issuance of the license has been specifically re-
quired by a provision of law other than the 
International Emergency Economic Powers Act 
(50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.) or the United Nations 
Participation Act of 1945 (22 U.S.C. 287 et 
seq.); or 
(ii) is property subject to the Vienna Con-
vention on Diplomatic Relations or the Vienna 
Convention on Consular Relations, or that en-
joys equivalent privileges and immunities under 
the laws of the United States, and is being 
used exclusively for diplomatic or consular pur-
poses. 
(2) 
FINANCIAL
ASSET; 
SECURITIES
INTER-
MEDIARY.—The terms ‘‘financial asset’’ and ‘‘securities 
intermediary’’ have the meanings given those terms in 
the Uniform Commercial Code, but the former includes 
cash. 
(3) IRAN.—The term ‘‘Iran’’ means the Govern-
ment of Iran, including the central bank or monetary au-