SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
Congress makes the following findings: 
(1) Iran voted in the United Nations General 
Assembly on December 10, 1948, to adopt the Uni-
versal Declaration of Human Rights, thereby com-
mitting to guarantee the ‘‘life, liberty, and security 
of person’’ of all people and rejecting ‘‘cruel, inhu-
man, or degrading treatment or punishment’’. 
(2) The Constitution of the Islamic Republic of 
Iran guarantees certain human rights and funda-
mental freedoms, including political and civil rights, 
along with economic, social, and cultural rights, in-
cluding a prohibition on torture and a guarantee of 
sentencing according to the law. 
(3) The Islamic Republic of Iran is a party to 
4 major United Nations human rights treaties: the 
Convention on the Rights of the Child (which it rati-
fied on July 13, 1994), the International Convention 
on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimi-
nation (which it ratified on August 29, 1968), and 
the International Covenant on Civil and Political 
Rights and the International Covenant on Economic, 
Social and Cultural Rights (both of which it ratified 
on June 24, 1975). 
(4) The Government of the Islamic Republic of 
Iran is violating its international and constitutional 
VerDate Nov 24 2008 
07:01 Feb 24, 2010
Jkt 089200
PO 00000
Frm 00002
Fmt 6652
Sfmt 6201
E:\BILLS\H4647.IH
H4647
dcolon on DSK2BSOYB1PROD with BILLS
obligations to respect the human rights and funda-
mental freedoms of its citizens, including by— 
(A) using torture and cruel, inhuman, or 
degrading treatment or punishment, including 
flogging, and amputations; 
(B) carrying out an increasingly high rate 
of executions in the absence of internationally 
recognized safeguards, including public execu-
tions and executions of juvenile offenders; 
(C) using stoning as a method of execution 
and maintaining a high number of persons in 
prison who continue to face sentences of execu-
tion by stoning; 
(D) carrying out arrests, violent repres-
sion, and sentencing of women exercising their 
right to peaceful assembly, a campaign of in-
timidation against women’s rights defenders, 
and continuing discrimination against women 
and girls; 
(E) permitting or carrying out increasing 
discrimination and other human rights viola-
tions against persons belonging to religious, 
ethnic, linguistic, or other minorities; 
(F) imposing ongoing, systematic, and se-
rious restrictions of freedom of peaceful assem-
VerDate Nov 24 2008 
07:01 Feb 24, 2010
Jkt 089200
PO 00000
Frm 00003
Fmt 6652
Sfmt 6201
E:\BILLS\H4647.IH
H4647
dcolon on DSK2BSOYB1PROD with BILLS
bly and association and freedom of opinion and 
expression, including the continuing closures of 
media outlets, arrests of journalists, and the 
censorship of expression in online forums such 
as blogs and websites; and 
(G) imposing severe limitations and re-
strictions on freedom of religion and belief, in-
cluding by carrying out arbitrary arrests, in-
definite detentions, and lengthy jail sentences 
for those exercising their rights to freedom of 
religion or belief and proposing a provision in a 
draft penal code that sets out a mandatory 
death sentence for apostasy, the abandoning of 
one’s faith. 
(5) On June 19, 2009, the United Nations 
High Commissioner for Human Rights expressed 
concerns about the increasing number of arrests not 
in conformity with the law and the illegal use of ex-
cessive force in responding to protests following the 
June 12, 2009, elections in Iran, resulting in at 
least dozens of deaths and hundreds of injuries. 
(6) On August 1, 2009, authorities in the Is-
lamic Republic of Iran began a mass trial of more 
than 100 individuals in connection with election pro-
tests, most of whom were held for weeks, in solitary 
VerDate Nov 24 2008 
07:01 Feb 24, 2010
Jkt 089200
PO 00000
Frm 00004
Fmt 6652
Sfmt 6201
E:\BILLS\H4647.IH
H4647
dcolon on DSK2BSOYB1PROD with BILLS
confinement, with little or no access to their lawyers 
or families, and many of whom showed signs of tor-
ture or abuse. 
(7) The Supreme Leader of Iran issued a state-
ment on October 28, 2009, effectively criminalizing 
dissent in the aftermath of the national election of 
June 12, 2009. 
(8) On November 4, 2009, security forces in 
the Islamic Republic of Iran used brutal force to dis-
perse thousands of protesters, resulting in a number 
of injuries and arrests, in violation of international 
standards regarding the proportionate use of force 
against peaceful demonstrations. 
(9) At least 8 citizens of Iran were killed and 
an undetermined number were injured on December 
27, 2009, when security forces of the Islamic Repub-
lic of Iran violently broke up peaceful gatherings 
during the Ashura holiday. 
(10) The Government of the Islamic Republic of 
Iran has recently sentenced numerous Iranian citi-
zens to death without due process for politicized 
crimes relating to the peaceful demonstrations that 
followed the June 12, 2009, elections, including 
‘‘waging war against God’’, and has begun carrying 
VerDate Nov 24 2008 
07:01 Feb 24, 2010
Jkt 089200
PO 00000
Frm 00005
Fmt 6652
Sfmt 6201
E:\BILLS\H4647.IH
H4647
dcolon on DSK2BSOYB1PROD with BILLS
out those execution sentences, including the death by 
hanging of 2 individuals on January 28, 2010. 
SEC. 3. IMPOSITION OF SANCTIONS ON CERTAIN PERSONS 
WHO ARE COMPLICIT IN HUMAN RIGHTS 
ABUSES COMMITTED AGAINST CITIZENS OF 
IRAN OR THEIR FAMILY MEMBERS AFTER 
THE JUNE 12, 2009, ELECTIONS IN IRAN. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Except as provided in subsections 
(d) and (e), the President shall impose sanctions described 
in subsection (c) with respect to each person on the list 
required by subsection (b). 
(b) LIST OF PERSONS WHO ARE COMPLICIT IN CER-
TAIN HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 90 days after 
the date of the enactment of this Act, the President 
shall submit to the appropriate congressional com-
mittees a list of persons who are citizens of Iran who 
the President determines are complicit in human 
rights abuses committed against citizens of Iran or 
their family members on or after June 12, 2009, re-
gardless of whether such abuses occurred in Iran. 
(2) UPDATES
OF
LIST.—The President shall 
submit to the appropriate congressional committees 
an updated list under paragraph (1) periodically and 
as new information becomes available. 
VerDate Nov 24 2008 
07:01 Feb 24, 2010
Jkt 089200
PO 00000
Frm 00006
Fmt 6652
Sfmt 6201
E:\BILLS\H4647.IH
H4647
dcolon on DSK2BSOYB1PROD with BILLS
(3) PUBLIC AVAILABILITY.—The list required 
under paragraph (1) shall be made available to the 
public and posted on the websites of the Department 
of the Treasury and the Department of State. 
(4) CONSIDERATION
OF
DATA
FROM
OTHER 
COUNTRIES
AND
NONGOVERNMENTAL
ORGANIZA-
TIONS.—In preparing the list required under para-
graph (1), the President shall consider data already 
obtained by other countries and nongovernmental or-
ganizations, including organizations in Iran, that 
monitor the human rights abuses of the Government 
of Iran. 
(c) SANCTIONS
DESCRIBED.—The sanctions de-
scribed in this subsection are the following: 
(1) VISA BAN.—Ineligibility for a visa to enter 
the United States. 
(2) FINANCIAL SANCTIONS.—Sanctions author-
ized under the International Emergency Economic 
Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.), including 
blocking of property and restrictions or prohibitions 
on financial transactions and the exportation and 
importation of property. 
(d) EXCEPTIONS TO COMPLY WITH INTERNATIONAL 
AGREEMENTS.—The President may, by regulation, au-
thorize exceptions to the imposition of sanctions under this 
VerDate Nov 24 2008 
07:01 Feb 24, 2010
Jkt 089200
PO 00000
Frm 00007
Fmt 6652
Sfmt 6201
E:\BILLS\H4647.IH
H4647
dcolon on DSK2BSOYB1PROD with BILLS
section to permit the United States to comply with the 
Agreement between the United Nations and the United 
States of America regarding the Headquarters of the 
United Nations, signed June 26, 1947, and entered into 
force November 21, 1947, and other applicable inter-
national agreements. 
(e) WAIVER.—The President may waive the require-
ment to impose or maintain sanctions with respect to a 
person under subsection (a) or the requirement to include 
a person on the list required by subsection (b) if the Presi-
dent— 
(1) determines that such a waiver is in the na-
tional interest of the United States; and 
(2) submits to the appropriate congressional 
committees a report describing the reasons for the 
determination. 
(f) TERMINATION OF SANCTIONS.—The provisions of 
this section shall cease to have force and effect on the date 
on which the President determines and certifies to the ap-
propriate congressional committees that the Government 
of Iran has— 
(1) unconditionally released all political pris-
oners, including the citizens of Iran detained in the 
aftermath of the June 12, 2009, presidential election 
in Iran; 
VerDate Nov 24 2008 
07:01 Feb 24, 2010
Jkt 089200
PO 00000
Frm 00008
Fmt 6652
Sfmt 6201
E:\BILLS\H4647.IH
H4647
dcolon on DSK2BSOYB1PROD with BILLS
(2) ceased its practices of violence, unlawful de-
tention, torture, and abuse of citizens of Iran while 
engaging in peaceful political activity; and 
(3) conducted a transparent investigation into 
the killings, arrest, and abuse of peaceful political 
activists in Iran and prosecuted those individuals re-
sponsible. 
(g) APPROPRIATE
CONGRESSIONAL
COMMITTEES 
DEFINED.—In this section, the term ‘‘appropriate con-
gressional committees’’ has the meaning given that term 
in section 14(2) of the Iran Sanctions Act of 1996 (Public 
Law 104–172; 50 U.S.C. 1701 note). 
Æ 
VerDate Nov 24 2008 
07:01 Feb 24, 2010
Jkt 089200
PO 00000
Frm 00009
Fmt 6652
Sfmt 6301
E:\BILLS\H4647.IH
H4647
dcolon on DSK2BSOYB1PROD with BILLS