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Union Calendar No. 491 
115TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 4744 
[Report No. 115–642, Part I] 
To impose additional sanctions with respect to serious human rights abuses 
of the Government of Iran, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JANUARY 9, 2018 
Mr. MCCAUL (for himself, Mr. DEUTCH, Mr. ROYCE of California, and Mr. 
ENGEL) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Com-
mittee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committees on the Ju-
diciary, Financial Services, and Ways and Means, for a period to be sub-
sequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of 
such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned 
APRIL 18, 2018 
Additional sponsors: Mr. MEEHAN, Mr. KING of New York, Mr. LANCE, Mr. 
MEADOWS, Mr. WALKER, Mr. SESSIONS, Ms. STEFANIK, Mr. POSEY, Mr. 
CHABOT, Mr. SIRES, Mr. WEBER
of Texas, Mr. SHERMAN, Mr. 
CICILLINE, Mr. TED LIEU of California, Ms. WASSERMAN SCHULTZ, Mr. 
SUOZZI, Mr. DONOVAN, Ms. FRANKEL of Florida, Mr. FITZPATRICK, Mr. 
RUSH, Mr. FRANCIS ROONEY of Florida, Mr. COOK, Mr. RENACCI, Mr. 
MAST, Mr. SAM JOHNSON of Texas, Mr. CONNOLLY, Mrs. LOWEY, Mr. 
OLSON, Mr. HUDSON, Mrs. TORRES, Ms. ROSEN, Mr. KENNEDY, Mr. 
ROSKAM, Mr. ESPAILLAT, Mr. WENSTRUP, Mr. MCCLINTOCK, Mr. JOHN-
SON of Ohio, Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN, Mr. JOYCE of Ohio, Mr. KINZINGER, 
Mr. SCHNEIDER, Mr. POE of Texas, and Mr. GROTHMAN 
APRIL 18, 2018 
Reported from the Committee on Foreign Affairs with an amendment 
[Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the part printed in italic] 
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APRIL 18, 2018 
The Committees on the Judiciary, Financial Services, and Ways and Means 
discharged; committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State 
of the Union and ordered to be printed 
[For text of introduced bill, see copy of bill as introduced on January 9, 2018] 
A BILL 
To impose additional sanctions with respect to serious human 
rights abuses of the Government of Iran, and for other 
purposes. 
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Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Iran Human Rights 
and Hostage-Taking Accountability Act’’. 
SEC. 2. UNITED STATES POLICY ON HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLA-
TIONS BY THE GOVERNMENT OF IRAN. 
(a) FINDINGS.—Congress finds the following: 
(1) Iran is a member of the United Nations, 
voted for the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 
and is a signatory to the International Covenant on 
Civil and Political Rights, among other international 
human rights treaties. 
(2) In violation of these and other international 
obligations, Iranian regime officials continue to vio-
late the fundamental human rights of the Iranian 
people. 
(3) The Iranian regime persecutes ethnic and re-
ligious minority groups, such as the Baha’is, Chris-
tians, Sufi, Sunni, and dissenting Shi’a Muslims 
(such as imprisoned Ayatollah Hossein Kazemeyni 
Boroujerdi), through harassment, arrests, and impris-
onment, during which detainees have routinely been 
beaten, tortured, and killed. 
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(4) Following voting irregularities that resulted 
in 
the 
2009 
election 
of 
President 
Mahmoud 
Ahmadinejad, the Iranian regime brutally suppressed 
peaceful political dissent from wide segments of civil 
society during the Green Revolution in a cynical at-
tempt to retain its undemocratic grip on power. 
(5) Since February 2011 the leaders of Iran’s 
Green Movement, former Prime Minister Mir Hossein 
Mousavi, his wife Dr. Zahra Rahnavard, and former 
Speaker of the Majles (parliament) Mehdi Karroubi, 
have lived under strict house arrest, ordered by Iran’s 
Supreme National Security Council. 
(6) In 1999 the Iranian regime brutally sup-
pressed a student revolt that was one of the largest 
mass uprisings up until that point in the country 
since 1979. 
(7) Over a 4-month period in 1988, the Iranian 
regime carried out the barbaric mass executions of 
thousands of political prisoners by hanging and fir-
ing squad for refusing to renounce their political af-
filiations and in some cases for possessing political 
reading material, including prisoners of conscience, 
teenagers, and pregnant women. In a recently dis-
closed audiotape, the late Hussein Ali Montazeri, a 
grand ayatollah who served as former Supreme leader 
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Khomeini’s chief deputy, said that the 1988 mass 
killings were ‘‘the greatest crime committed during 
the Islamic Republic, for which history will condemn 
us’’. 
(8) Senior governmental, military, and public 
security officials in Iran have continued ordering, 
controlling, and committing egregious human rights 
violations that, in many cases, represent official poli-
cies of the Iranian regime. 
(b) SENSE OF CONGRESS.—It is the sense of the Con-
gress that the United States should— 
(1) deny the Government of Iran the ability to 
continue to oppress the people of Iran and to use vio-
lence 
and 
executions 
to 
silence 
pro-democracy 
protestors; 
(2) work with international partners to inves-
tigate human rights violations by senior officials of 
the Government of Iran, regardless of where or when 
such violations took place; 
(3) support efforts made by the people of Iran to 
promote the establishment of basic freedoms that build 
the foundation for the emergence of a freely elected, 
open, non-corrupt and democratic political system; 
(4) condemn Iranian human rights abuses 
against dissidents, including the massacre in 1988 
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and the suppression of political demonstrations in 
1999, 2009, and 2017, and pressure the Government 
of Iran to provide family members detailed informa-
tion that they were denied about the final resting 
places of any missing victims of such abuses; and 
(5) help the people of Iran produce, access, and 
share information freely and safely via the internet 
and other media. 
(c) STATEMENT OF POLICY.—It shall be the policy of 
the United States to stand with the people of Iran who seek 
the opportunity to freely elect a government of their choos-
ing, and increase the utilization of all available authorities 
to impose sanctions on officials of the Government of Iran 
and other individuals responsible for serious human rights 
abuses. 
SEC. 3. DETERMINATIONS WITH RESPECT TO IMPOSITION 
OF SANCTIONS ON CERTAIN PERSONS RE-
SPONSIBLE FOR OR COMPLICIT IN HUMAN 
RIGHTS ABUSES, ENGAGING IN CENSORSHIP, 
ENGAGING IN THE DIVERSION OF GOODS IN-
TENDED FOR THE PEOPLE OF IRAN, OR EN-
GAGING IN CORRUPTION. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 270 days after the 
date of the enactment of this Act, the President shall submit 
to the appropriate congressional committees a report con-
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taining a determination of whether any senior officials of 
the Government of Iran or other Iranian persons meet the 
criteria described in— 
(1) subsection (b) of section 105D of the Com-
prehensive Iran Sanctions, Accountability, and Di-
vestment Act of 2010, as added by section 5 of this 
Act; or 
(2) paragraph (3) or (4) of section 1263(a) of the 
National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 
2017 (Public Law 114–328; 22 U.S.C. 2656 note). 
(b) REVIEW OF CERTAIN ENTITIES.—The report re-
quired under subsection (a) shall contain a review of any 
activities of cooperative foundations or bonyads in Iran 
with a capitalization that exceeds $200,000,000 and that 
meet the criteria in paragraph (3) or (4) of section 1263(a) 
of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 
2017 (Public Law 114–328; 22 U.S.C. 2656 note) for pur-
poses of corruption. 
(c) FORM OF REPORT; PUBLIC AVAILABILITY.— 
(1) FORM.—The report required under subsection 
(a) shall be submitted in unclassified form, but may 
contain a classified annex. 
(2) PUBLIC AVAILABILITY.—The unclassified por-
tion of such report shall be made available to the pub-
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lic and posted on the internet website of the Depart-
ment of the Treasury— 
(A) in English, Farsi, Arabic, and Azeri; 
and 
(B) in precompressed, easily downloadable 
versions that are made available in all appro-
priate formats. 
(d) DEFINITION.—In this section, the term ‘‘appro-
priate congressional committees’’ means— 
(1) the Committee on Financial Services and the 
Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Rep-
resentatives; and 
(2) the Committee on Banking, Housing, and 
Urban Affairs and the Committee on Foreign Rela-
tions of the Senate. 
SEC. 4. UNITED STATES POLICY ON HOSTAGE-TAKING BY 
THE GOVERNMENT OF IRAN. 
(a) FINDINGS.—Congress finds the following: 
(1) Since 1979 the Iranian regime has engaged 
in various destabilizing activities that undermine the 
national security of the United States and its allies 
and partners. 
(2) These activities include the hostage-taking or 
prolonged arbitrary detentions of United States citi-
zens and other persons with connections to Canada, 
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the United Kingdom, France, and other nations allied 
with the United States. 
(3) The Iranian regime has detained on fab-
ricated claims a significant number of United States 
citizens, including Siamak and Baquer Namazi and 
Xiyue Wang, as well as United States legal perma-
nent resident, Nizar Zakka, in violation of inter-
national legal norms. 
(4) The Iranian regime has not provided infor-
mation on the whereabouts of or assistance in ensur-
ing the prompt and safe return of Robert Levinson, 
despite repeated promises to do so, after he was kid-
napped while visiting Iran’s Kish Island on March 9, 
2007—making him the longest held hostage in United 
States history. 
(5) The Iranian regime reportedly uses hostages 
as leverage against foreign investors to exact business 
concessions in foreign investment deals. 
(6) The type of hostage-taking enterprise put in 
place by the Iranian regime is a crime against hu-
manity and a violation of customary international 
law. 
(b) SENSE OF CONGRESS.—It is the sense of the Con-
gress that— 
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