scribed in the Joint Plan of Action) relating to 
Iran’s nuclear program; 
(2) the United States has secured a mechanism 
to carry out justice and award compensation to the 
United States citizens who were held hostage in the 
United States Embassy in Tehran, Iran, in 1979; 
(3) the Government of Iran has freed all Amer-
ican prisoners of conscience who are being unjustly 
held in Iranian jails; 
(4) the Government of Iran is complying with 
all inspections conducted by the International Atom-
ic Energy Agency to fulfill its obligations under the 
Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weap-
ons, done at Washington, London, and Moscow, July 
1, 1968, and entered into force March 5, 1970 (com-
monly known as the ‘‘Nuclear Non-Proliferation 
Treaty’’), to which Iran is a party; 
(5) the United States can verifiably determine, 
through certification by the International Atomic 
Energy Agency, that the Government of Iran— 
(A) has dismantled its nuclear program in 
its entirety, including all centrifuges, capabili-
ties, and facilities for enrichment and reprocess-
ing of uranium and plutonium; 
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(B) has relinquished all stockpiles of en-
riched uranium; and 
(C) does not have any ballistic missiles or 
cruise missiles with a range of 300 kilometers 
or more and a payload of 500 kilograms or 
more and has dismantled its research and devel-
opment programs for such weapons; and 
(D) has addressed and clarified all out-
standing issues raised by the International 
Atomic Energy Agency, including possible mili-
tary dimensions of its nuclear program and 
measures related to the initiation of high explo-
sives and neutron transport calculations; 
(6) the Secretary of the Treasury no longer 
finds that the Central Bank of Iran is a financial in-
stitution of primary money laundering concern pur-
suant to section 5318A of title 31, United States 
Code; and 
(7) the President has submitted to Congress the 
notice and certification described in subsection (b). 
(b) NOTICE
AND
CERTIFICATION
RELATING
TO 
IRAN’S DESIGNATION AS A STATE SPONSOR OF TER-
RORISM.— 
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(1) IN GENERAL.—The President may not ter-
minate the designation of Iran as a state sponsor of 
terrorism unless— 
(A) not later than 60 days before termi-
nating that designation, the President submits 
to Congress— 
(i) a notice of the President’s intent 
to terminate the designation of Iran as a 
state sponsor of terrorism; and 
(ii) the certification described in para-
graph (2); and 
(B) there is enacted into law during the 
60-day period described in subparagraph (A) a 
joint resolution approving the termination of 
the designation. 
(2) CERTIFICATION
DESCRIBED.—The certifi-
cation described in this paragraph is the certification 
of the President that— 
(A) the Government of Iran has not pro-
vided any support for acts of international ter-
rorism during the one-year period preceding the 
submission of the notice under paragraph 
(1)(A); 
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(B) the Government of Iran has provided 
assurances that it will not support acts of inter-
national terrorism in the future; and 
(C) the United States Government ac-
knowledges Iran’s participation in, and de-
mands Iran accept legal responsibility for— 
(i) the bombing of the Israeli embassy 
in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on March 17, 
1992; 
(ii) the bombing of the World Trade 
Center in New York, New York, on Feb-
ruary 26, 1993; 
(iii) the bombing of the Asociacio´n 
Mutual Israelita Argentina Jewish Com-
munity Center in Buenos Aires, Argentina, 
on July 18, 1994; and 
(iv) the bombing of the Khobar Tow-
ers in Khobar, Saudi Arabia, on June 25, 
1996. 
(c) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 
(1) ACT OF INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM.—The 
term ‘‘act of international terrorism’’ has the mean-
ing given that term in section 14 of the Iran Sanc-
tions Act of 1996 (Public Law 104–172; 50 U.S.C. 
1701 note). 
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(2) JOINT PLAN OF ACTION.—The term ‘‘Joint 
Plan of Action’’— 
(A) means the Joint Plan of Action, signed 
at Geneva, November 24, 2013, by Iran and by 
the United States, France, the Russian Federa-
tion, the People’s Republic of China, the United 
Kingdom, and Germany; and 
(B) includes all implementing materials 
and agreements related to the Joint Plan of Ac-
tion, including the technical understandings 
reached on January 12, 2014, the extension 
agreed to on July 19, 2014, and the extension 
agreed to on November 24, 2014. 
(3) STATE SPONSOR OF TERRORISM.—The term 
‘‘state sponsor of terrorism’’ means a country the 
government of which the Secretary of State deter-
mines has repeatedly provided support for acts of 
international terrorism pursuant to— 
(A) section 6(j)(1)(A) of the Export Ad-
ministration Act of 1979 (50 U.S.C. App. 
2405(j)(1)(A)) (as continued in effect pursuant 
to the International Emergency Economic Pow-
ers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.)); 
(B) section 40(d) of the Arms Export Con-
trol Act (22 U.S.C. 2780(d)); or 
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(C) section 620A(a) of the Foreign Assist-
ance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2371(a)). 
SEC. 11. EXTENSION OF IRAN SANCTIONS ACT OF 1996. 
Section 13 of the Iran Sanctions Act of 1996 (Public 
Law 104–172; 50 U.S.C. 1701 note) is amended by strik-
ing ‘‘2016’’ and inserting ‘‘2020’’. 
Æ 
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