I 
118TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 6114 
To impose additional sanctions with respect to Iran and modify other existing 
sanctions with respect to Iran, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
OCTOBER 30, 2023 
Mr. BANKS (for himself, Mr. HERN, Mr. WILSON of South Carolina, Mr. 
ADERHOLT, Mr. ALFORD, Mr. ALLEN, Mr. ARRINGTON, Mr. BACON, Mr. 
BAIRD, Mr. BARR, Mr. BUCK, Mrs. CAMMACK, Mr. CISCOMANI, Mr. COL-
LINS, Mr. CRENSHAW, Mr. ELLZEY, Mr. ESTES, Mr. FALLON, Mr. 
FEENSTRA, Mr. FERGUSON, Mr. FINSTAD, Mr. FITZGERALD, Mr. 
FLEISCHMANN, Mr. SCOTT FRANKLIN of Florida, Mr. MIKE GARCIA of 
California, Mr. GIMENEZ, Mr. TONY GONZALES of Texas, Mr. GOOD of 
Virginia, Mr. GOODEN of Texas, Mr. GREEN of Tennessee, Mr. GUEST, 
Mr. HIGGINS of Louisiana, Mr. HILL, Mrs. HOUCHIN, Mr. HUDSON, Mr. 
JACKSON of Texas, Mr. JOYCE of Ohio, Mr. LALOTA, Mr. LAMBORN, Mr. 
LOUDERMILK, Mr. LUTTRELL, Ms. MALLIOTAKIS, Mr. MANN, Mrs. 
MCCLAIN, Mr. MILLER of Ohio, Mrs. MILLER-MEEKS, Mr. MILLS, Mr. 
MOOLENAAR, Mr. MOONEY, Mr. NEHLS, Mr. NORMAN, Mr. OBERNOLTE, 
Mr. 
OWENS, 
Mr. 
PALMER, 
Mr. 
PENCE, 
Mr. 
PFLUGER, 
Mr. 
RESCHENTHALER, Mr. ROSE, Mr. RUTHERFORD, Ms. SALAZAR, Mr. 
SELF, Mr. SESSIONS, Mr. SMITH of New Jersey, Ms. STEFANIK, Mr. 
STEIL, Mr. STEUBE, Mr. STRONG, Mr. TIFFANY, Mr. VAN DREW, Ms. 
VAN DUYNE, Mrs. WAGNER, Mr. WALBERG, Mr. WALTZ, Mr. WEBER of 
Texas, Mr. WILLIAMS of Texas, Mr. WITTMAN, Mr. ZINKE, Mr. BOST, 
Mr. HUIZENGA, Mr. KEAN of New Jersey, Mr. LANGWORTHY, Mr. 
LATURNER, Mrs. MILLER of West Virginia, Mr. MOORE of Utah, Mr. 
NEWHOUSE, and Mr. GALLAGHER) introduced the following bill; which 
was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the 
Committees on the Judiciary, Ways and Means, Oversight and Account-
ability, Financial Services, Rules, and Intelligence (Permanent Select), 
for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case 
for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the 
committee concerned 
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A BILL 
To impose additional sanctions with respect to Iran and 
modify other existing sanctions with respect to Iran, 
and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE; TABLE OF CONTENTS. 
(a) SHORT TITLE.—This Act may be cited as the 
‘‘Maximum Pressure Act’’. 
(b) TABLE OF CONTENTS.—The table of contents for 
this Act is as follows: 
Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents. 
Sec. 2. Findings. 
Sec. 3. Sense of congress on Iranian responsibility for Hamas terror attacks on 
October 7, 2023. 
Sec. 4. Statement of policy. 
Sec. 5. Severability. 
TITLE I—MATTERS RELATING TO SANCTIONS AND SANCTION 
AUTHORITIES 
Sec. 101. Codification of executive orders and continuation of certain existing 
sanctions. 
Sec. 102. Sanctions with respect to the Supreme Leader of Iran. 
Sec. 103. Sanctions with respect to listed persons involved in international arms 
sales to Iran. 
Sec. 104. Additional conditions for termination and elimination of sunset of 
sanctions under the Iran Sanctions Act of 1996. 
Sec. 105. Sectoral sanctions on Iran under the Iran Freedom and Counter-Pro-
liferation Act of 2012. 
Sec. 106. Amendments to the comprehensive Iran Sanctions, Accountability, 
and Divestment Act of 2010. 
Sec. 107. Congressional review of certain actions relating to sanctions imposed 
with respect to Iran. 
Sec. 108. Clarification of guidance relating to Iran’s shipping sector. 
Sec. 109. Sunset of waiver and license authorities. 
Sec. 110. Codification and application on transfers of funds involving Iran. 
Sec. 111. Applicability of congressional review of certain agency rulemaking re-
lating to Iran. 
Sec. 112. Strict liability of parent companies and foreign subsidiaries for viola-
tions of Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977. 
Sec. 113. Expansion of sanctions with respect to efforts by Iran to acquire bal-
listic missile and related technology. 
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Sec. 114. Expansion of sanctions under Iran Sanctions Act of 1996 with re-
spect to persons that acquire or develop ballistic missiles. 
Sec. 115. Imposition of sanctions with respect to Ballistic Missile Program of 
Iran. 
Sec. 116. Mandatory sanctions with respect to financial institutions that engage 
in certain transactions on behalf of persons involved in human 
rights abuses or that export sensitive technology to Iran. 
Sec. 117. Additional sanctions with respect to foreign persons that support or 
conduct certain transactions with Iran’s Revolutionary Guard 
Corps or other sanctioned persons. 
TITLE II—MATTERS RELATING TO THE FINANCING OF 
TERRORISM 
Sec. 201. Prohibitions of International Monetary Fund allocations for Iran. 
Sec. 202. Certification requirement for removal of designation of Iran as a ju-
risdiction of primary money laundering concern. 
Sec. 203. Requirement to take special measures at domestic financial institu-
tions. 
Sec. 204. Additional sanctions with respect to foreign persons that are officials, 
agents, or affiliates of, or owned or controlled by, Iran’s Revo-
lutionary Guard Corps. 
Sec. 205. Additional sanctions with respect to foreign persons that support or 
conduct certain transactions with Iran’s Revolutionary Guard 
Corps or other sanctioned persons. 
Sec. 206. Reports on certain Iranian persons and sectors of Iran’s economy 
that are controlled by Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps. 
TITLE III—MATTERS RELATING TO THE DESIGNATION OF 
CERTAIN ENTITIES 
Sec. 301. Prohibition on future waivers and licenses connected to the designa-
tion of the IRGC. 
Sec. 302. Prohibition on future waivers and licenses connected to the designa-
tion of the IRGC as a foreign terrorist organization. 
Sec. 303. Measures with respect to Ansarallah in Yemen. 
TITLE IV—DETERMINATIONS AND REPORTS 
Sec. 401. Determinations with respect to the imposition of sanctions. 
Sec. 402. Iranian militia watchlists. 
Sec. 403. Expansion of reporting to include Iranian arms shipments to the 
Houthis and Iranian backed militias in Iraq and Syria. 
Sec. 404. Annual report on Iran sanctions violations. 
Sec. 405. Report on sanctions relief going to terrorism or destabilizing activi-
ties. 
Sec. 406. Supporting human rights for the people of Iran and the victims of 
Iranian human rights abuses in Syria, Lebanon, Yemen, and 
Venezuela. 
Sec. 407. Determination with respect to net worth of Iranian Supreme Leader 
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. 
Sec. 408. IRGC watch list and report. 
Sec. 409. Report on Iran’s breakout timeline for uranium enrichment and nu-
clear weaponization. 
Sec. 410. Report 
on 
Iranian 
disinformation 
campaigns 
and 
counter- 
disinformation efforts. 
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Sec. 411. Report on Iranian support to Hamas. 
Sec. 412. Report on unblocked Iranian assets and terrorism. 
Sec. 413. Report on Iranian counterintelligence threats in the United States. 
TITLE V—ADDITIONAL MATTERS 
Sec. 501. Increasing rewards for justice for Hamas, Hezbollah, the Islamic 
Revolutionary Guard Corps and other terrorists involved in Oc-
tober 7, 2023, terrorist attacks against Israel. 
Sec. 502. Repurposing frozen Iranian funds for United States Victims of State 
Sponsored Terrorism fund. 
Sec. 503. Determination regarding applicable Iranian financial institutions 
under executive order 13902. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
Congress finds the following: 
(1) Iran is the world’s leading State sponsor of 
terrorism. It seeks ‘‘death to America’’ and the de-
struction of the State of Israel. 
(2) Iran’s pursuit of nuclear weapons, its ef-
forts to destroy the State of Israel, its support of 
terrorism, its destabilizing behavior in the Middle 
East, its development and proliferation of drones 
and ballistic missiles, and its gross violations of 
human rights against its own people and the peoples 
of the Middle East are a threat to the national secu-
rity of the United States, our allies, and inter-
national peace and security. 
(3) Iran and its proxies have planned, directed, 
sponsored, and funded terrorist plots throughout the 
world and on United States soil, including the Octo-
ber 2023, mass murder and hostage-taking of Israeli 
civilians by Hamas and the killing of at least 31 
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United States citizens in that attack, the 2011 at-
tempted assassination of the Saudi Arabian Ambas-
sador to the United States in Washington, DC, the 
1994 bombing of the Asociacion Mutual Israelita Ar-
gentina in Buenos Aires, Argentina, which killed 
over 85 people, and the 2012 bus bombing in 
Burgas, Bulgaria, which killed 5 Israelis. 
(4) Experts estimate that Iran as of September 
2023, has enough highly enriched uranium to 
produce weapons-grade uranium for 1 nuclear bomb 
within 12 days and as many as 6 nuclear bombs 
within 1 month. Iran continues to enrich uranium to 
levels for which there is no conceivable civilian pur-
pose and which could only be used to produce a nu-
clear weapon. 
(5) According to multiple United States Direc-
tors of National Intelligence, Iran has the largest ar-
senal of ballistic missiles in the Middle East. Iran 
also possesses a robust cruise missile arsenal and 
advanced drone capability, which threaten United 
States and allied air and missile defenses. Iran tests, 
transfers, and even uses these systems in military 
operations abroad. 
(6) Iran has given ballistic missiles, drones, and 
associated technology to the Houthis in Yemen, Shi-
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ite militias in Iraq, the Assad regime in Syria, and 
Hezbollah in Lebanon, and is trafficking precision- 
guided munitions parts through the Middle East to 
upgrade the rocket forces of its chief proxy, 
Hezbollah. 
(7) Iran has sold thousands of drones to Russia 
for its use in its invasion of Ukraine, leading to 
mass attacks on civilian infrastructure, and has 
given Russia the technology and knowledge to 
produce these drones in Russia. 
(8) Iran continues to take United States citi-
zens hostage in order to extract ransom payments 
from the United States and exchange arbitrarily de-
tained United States citizens for Iranian agents ar-
rested for violating United States sanctions and for 
other malign activities. 
(9) The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action 
negotiated by former President Barack Obama was 
fatally flawed, did not eliminate Iran’s pathway to a 
nuclear weapon, and allowed Iran to retain and re-
fine its ability to quickly resume its pursuit of a nu-
clear weapon. 
(10) The failed Iran nuclear agreement pro-
vided Iran with over $100,000,000,000 in sanctions 
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relief that was used by Iran to fuel proxy wars 
across the Middle East. 
(11) The failed Iran nuclear agreement lifted 
the United Nations conventional arms embargo on 
Iran in October 2020, permitting Russia and China 
to engage in international arms sales with Iran. 
(12) The failed Iran nuclear agreement also 
lifted the United Nations missile embargo on Iran in 
October 2023, allowing Iran to sell and purchase 
drone and ballistic missile technology. 
(13) A central flaw of the failed Iran nuclear 
deal was that the agreement solely focused on nu-
clear weapons and did not address non-nuclear 
issues like Iran’s support for terrorism, drone and 
ballistic missile technology, gross human rights 
abuses, and Iran’s other malign activities. 
(14) On May 21, 2018, 2 weeks after President 
Trump withdrew from the failed Iran nuclear deal, 
former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo laid out 12 
demands that would need to be met by Iran as part 
of any agreement related to the lifting of sanctions, 
and the re-establishment of diplomatic and commer-
cial relations with Iran. 
(15) Former President Donald Trump’s max-
imum pressure campaign on Iran denied the regime 
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without lifting sanctions or transferring cash to 
Iran. 
(21) President Joe Biden’s relentless attempts 
to re-enter the failed Iran nuclear agreement squan-
dered much of the leverage created by President 
Trump’s maximum pressure campaign. 
(22) The Biden Administration’s pursuit of an 
even weaker deal with Iran broke previous pledges 
made by administration officials to pursue a ‘‘longer 
and stronger’’ deal that extended sunset dates of re-
strictions and which would cover a broader range of 
Iran’s malign activity. 
(23) Amid the multiple failed rounds of talks to 
get Iran to reenter the Iran nuclear agreement, the 
Biden administration reportedly offered to remove 
the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps from the 
Foreign Terrorist Organization list, despite the 
group’s obvious involvement in and support for ter-
rorism, until news of this offer became public. 
(24) The Iranian regime has made more than 
$80,000,000,000 in illicit oil sales since President 
Biden took office due to the administration’s lax en-
forcement of sanctions on Iranian oil exports. Total 
Iranian oil exports reached nearly 2,000,000 barrels 
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per day in August 2023, the highest since before the 
maximum pressure campaign began. 
(25) In 2021, Iran increased funding for the Is-
lamic Revolutionary Guard Corps by 14 percent, re-
versing budget cuts imposed as a result of maximum 
pressure. 
(26) Iran’s accessible foreign exchange reserves 
have risen from $4,000,000,000 in 2020 to at least 
$43,000,000,000 in 2023. 
(27) In July 2023, the United States unfroze 
nearly $10,000,000,000 held in Iraqi banks for Iraq 
to pay to the Iranian regime. 
(28) In August 2023, the Biden Administration 
agreed to give Iran access to $6,000,000,000 in pre-
viously frozen funds and released several Iranians in 
prison for violating United States sanctions in ex-
change for the release of 5 United States hostages. 
This represents the largest ransom payment in 
United States history. 
(29) On March 18, 2021, in an interview with 
BBC Persian, President Biden’s Special Envoy for 
Iran and lead United States negotiator in talks to 
re-enter the Iran deal, Robert Malley, stated ‘‘Presi-
dent Biden and all of his senior advisers have said 
this—the maximum pressure campaign has failed. It 
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was a failure, a predicted failure. It hasn’t made life 
any better for the Iranian people; it hasn’t made life 
any better for the United States and the region; it 
hasn’t brought us any closer to this better deal that 
President Trump spoke about.’’. 
(30) In June 2023, it was revealed that the 
State Department had placed Malley on leave and 
had suspended his security clearance, reportedly due 
to accusations that Malley mishandled classified in-
formation. 
(31) In September 2023, it was revealed that 
Malley had deep ties to several experts who were 
part of an Iranian Government influence operation 
during the Iran deal negotiations to convince West-
ern governments to support lighter demands on 
Iran. These experts have since served in senior staff 
positions in the Department of Defense and have ad-
vised executive branch officials on issues related to 
Iran. 
(32) In September 2022, the Iranian regime’s 
‘‘Morality Police’’ detained, brutally beat, and killed 
22-year old Mahsa Amini for allegedly violating Is-
lamic dress code. Mahsa’s death spurred the largest 
anti-regime and pro-democracy protests in Iran since 
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the 1979 revolution, with hundreds of thousands of 
Iranians chanting ‘‘Death to the Dictator’’. 
(33) Iranian regime forces cracked down on the 
protests, killing at least 500 protestors, and eventu-
ally reinstated street patrols of the Morality Police 
and has continued brutalizing women who do not ad-
here to its strict dress code. 
(34) On September 12, 2023, the House of 
Representatives passed the passed the MAHSA Act, 
which imposes sanctions on Iranian leadership, in-
cluding the Supreme Leader of Iran, for their re-
sponsibility for Mahsa’s death and for their repres-
sion of innocent Iranians like Mahsa. The MAHSA 
Act represents a Congress bipartisan consensus that 
the Biden administration’s policy on Iran has clearly 
failed and that Iranian regime officials must be held 
accountable for their crimes. 
(35) Iranian proxy group Hamas carried out a 
massacre of Israeli and other civilians on October 7, 
2023, that killed more than 1,400 Israelis and for-
eign nationals, including United States citizens, and 
which took nearly 200 people into Gaza as hostages. 
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SEC. 3. SENSE OF CONGRESS ON IRANIAN RESPONSIBILITY 
FOR HAMAS TERROR ATTACKS ON OCTOBER 
7, 2023. 
It is the sense of Congress that— 
(1) Iran is clearly culpable for Hamas’ terrorist 
attack against Israel on October 7, 2023, as a result 
of its funding, training, and coordination of Hamas 
and other terrorist organizations; 
(2) any funds directly or indirectly released to 
Iran, or funds freed up by the expectation of the im-
minent release of those funds, benefit Iran’s ter-
rorist proxies like Hamas and Hezbollah and encour-
age further acts of terrorism; 
(3) all funds previously released to Iran be im-
mediately frozen and that all licenses and waivers al-
lowing funding to directly or indirectly flow to Iran 
be suspended immediately; and 
(4) the only suitable punishment for Iran’s par-
ticipation in and organization of this mass murder 
is for the United States to halt its appeasement of 
the Iranian regime and to return to a policy of max-
imum pressure. 
SEC. 4. STATEMENT OF POLICY. 
It is the policy of the United States as follows: 
(1) To deny Iran all paths to a nuclear weapon 
and intercontinental ballistic missiles capability, in-
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cluding by permanently, verifiably, and irreversibly 
eliminating its capabilities related to enrichment. 
(2) To deter and defeat any attempts by Iran 
and its terrorist proxies to destroy the State of 
Israel. 
(3) To roll back the totality of Iran’s malign in-
fluence and activities in the Middle East. 
(4) To support the human rights of the people 
of Iran and to encourage their continued opposition 
to their illegitimate and brutal regime. 
(5) To require that any new agreement with 
Iran should be submitted to the Senate for ratifica-
tion as a treaty. 
(6) To impose maximum economic pressure on 
Iran, and keep all sanctions in place on Iran, until 
the regime fulfills the following 12 demands laid out 
by former Secretary of State Pompeo on May 21, 
2018: 
(A) Iran must declare to the International 
Atomic Energy Agency a full account of the 
prior military dimensions of its nuclear pro-
gram, and permanently and verifiably abandon 
such work in perpetuity. 
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