I 
114TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 5827 
To require the President to determine whether a sale or transfer of advanced 
integrated air defense systems to Iran meets the requirements to impose 
sanctions under certain Iran sanctions laws, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JULY 14, 2016 
Mr. CHABOT introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Com-
mittee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committees on Finan-
cial Services, the Judiciary, Ways and Means, and Oversight and Govern-
ment Reform, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, 
in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the juris-
diction of the committee concerned 
A BILL 
To require the President to determine whether a sale or 
transfer of advanced integrated air defense systems to 
Iran meets the requirements to impose sanctions under 
certain Iran sanctions laws, 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. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Determination of Rus-
sia-Iran Weapons Transfer Act of 2016’’. 
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SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
Congress finds the following: 
(1) The S–300 surface-to-air missile defense 
system, which has a range of 120 miles and can en-
gage aircraft or short- and medium-range ballistic 
missiles, provides enhanced capabilities to Iran. 
(2) Such a system would significantly bolster 
Iranian military capabilities and introduce new ob-
stacles to the ability of the United States to elimi-
nate the threat of an Iranian nuclear weapon. 
(3) Iran received an S–300 surface-to-air mis-
sile defense system from the Russian Federation as 
part of an arms deal that was revived after Iran 
agreed to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, 
signed at Vienna on July 14, 2015, relating to the 
nuclear program of Iran. 
(4) Russian officials have said they plan to de-
liver four such systems to Iran by the end of 2016. 
The delivery is part of an $800,000,000 contract 
signed in 2007, under which Russia was to provide 
Iran with five such systems. Russia suspended the 
deliveries of such systems in 2010. 
(5) On April 18, 2016, Department of State 
spokesperson John Kirby stated during a State De-
partment briefing, ‘‘We have made clear in the past 
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our objections to any sale of the S–300 missile sys-
tem to Iran.’’. 
(6) On June 8, 2016, the administration stated, 
in response to an inquiry by Representative Steve 
Chabot about the sale, that it has strongly urged the 
Government of Russia not to proceed with the sale 
of such systems to Iran, and that such a sale would 
add to tensions in the region and be clearly incon-
sistent with the goals of non-proliferation. 
SEC. 3. SENSE OF CONGRESS. 
It is the sense of Congress that the sale or transfer 
of an advanced integrated air defense system to Iran con-
stitutes the sale or transfer of a destabilizing type of ad-
vanced conventional weapons system to Iran. 
SEC. 4. DETERMINATIONS WITH RESPECT TO THE IMPOSI-
TION OF SANCTIONS FOR THE SALE OR 
TRANSFER OF ADVANCED INTEGRATED AIR 
DEFENSE SYSTEMS TO THE GOVERNMENT OF 
IRAN. 
(a) NOTIFICATION OF SALES AND TRANSFERS.—Not 
later than 15 days after the date on which the President 
receives credible information that any advanced integrated 
air defense system has been sold or transferred to Iran, 
the President shall notify the appropriate congressional 
committees of the sale or transfer. 
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(b) DETERMINATIONS WITH RESPECT
TO SANC-
TIONS.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 30 days after 
the date on which the President notifies the appro-
priate congressional committees of a sale or transfer 
under subsection (a), the President shall— 
(A) determine whether such sale or trans-
fer meets the requirements to impose sanctions 
under each provision of law specified in sub-
section (c); and 
(B)(i) if the determination is that the sale 
or transfer is subject to any such sanctions, the 
President shall— 
(I) make a determination with respect 
to whether the President will impose or 
waive such sanctions with respect to such 
sale or transfer; and 
(II) submit that determination to the 
appropriate congressional committees; or 
(ii) if the determination is that the sale or 
transfer is not subject to any such sanctions, 
the President shall submit to the appropriate 
congressional committees a detailed report on 
the determination and the specific reasons for 
the determination. 
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