SEC. 604. CONTINUATION OF RESTRICTIONS AGAINST THE 
GOVERNMENT OF IRAN. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Restrictions against the Govern-
ment of Iran that were imposed by reason of a determina-
tion of the Secretary of State that the Government of 
Syria, for purposes of section 6(j) of the Export Adminis-
tration Act of 1979 (as continued in effect pursuant to 
the International Emergency Economic Powers Act), sec-
tion 40 of the Arms Export Control Act, section 620A of 
the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, or other provision of 
law, is a government that has repeatedly provided support 
for acts of international terrorism, shall remain in effect, 
and shall not be lifted pursuant to such provisions of law, 
unless the President certifies to Congress that the Govern-
ment of Iran— 
(1) is no longer engaged in the illegal develop-
ment, acquisition, procurement, or stockpiling of 
missile, nuclear, chemical, biological, or radiological 
technology, or transfer to any other country, the 
government of which the Secretary of State has de-
termined, for purposes of any of the provisions of 
law specified in the matter preceding this paragraph, 
is a government that has repeatedly provided sup-
port for acts of international terrorism; 
(2) is no longer engaged in training, harboring, 
supplying, financing, or supporting in any way— 
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(A) any organization designated by the 
Secretary of State as a foreign terrorist organi-
zation in accordance with section 219(a) of the 
Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 
1189(a)); and 
(B) any person included on the Annex to 
Executive Order 13224 (September 23, 2001) 
and any other person identified under section 1 
of that Executive Order whose property and in-
terests in property are blocked by that section 
(commonly known as a ‘‘specially designated 
global terrorist’’). 
(b) LIMITATION ON ASSISTANCE.—Notwithstanding 
any other provision of law, no funds under this or any 
other Act shall be used to provide direct or indirect assist-
ance to the Government of Iran unless the President 
makes the certification described in subsection (a). 
TITLE VII—DEFINITIONS 
SEC. 701. DEFINITIONS. 
Except as otherwise provided, in this Act: 
(1) APPROPRIATE
CONGRESSIONAL
COMMIT-
TEES.—The term ‘‘appropriate congressional com-
mittees’’ means— 
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(A) the Committee on Foreign Affairs and 
the Committee on Appropriations of the House 
of Representatives; and 
(B) the Committee on Foreign Relations 
and the Committee on Appropriations of the 
Senate. 
(2) GOVERNMENT OF IRAN.—The term ‘‘Gov-
ernment of Iran’’ includes any agency or instrumen-
tality of the Government of Iran, including any enti-
ty that is controlled by the Government of Iran. 
(3) WEAPONS
OF
MASS
DESTRUCTION
PRO-
GRAMS.—The term ‘‘weapons of mass destruction 
programs’’ means— 
(A) and chemical weapons, biological weap-
ons, radiological or nuclear procurement and 
development programs and efforts; 
(B) ballistic missile procurement and devel-
opment programs and efforts; and 
(C) other actions in violation of the 
Waasenaar Arrangement on Export Controls 
for Conventional Arms and Dual-Use Goods 
and Technologies, the Missile Technology Con-
trol Regime, the Australia Group, the Nuclear 
Suppliers’ Group, the Zangger Committee, and 
any other international agreement or arrange-
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ment to which the United States is a party that 
restricts the export of chemical, biological, nu-
clear, and other weapons and their delivery sys-
tems, and effectively restricts the export of dual 
use components of such weapons and their de-
livery systems. 
Æ 
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