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118TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 7950 
To impose certain requirements relating to the renegotiation or reentry into 
the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action or other agreement relating 
to Iran’s nuclear program, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
APRIL 11, 2024 
Mr. GOOD of Virginia (for himself, Mrs. MILLER of Illinois, Mr. OGLES, Mr. 
MOORE of Alabama, and Mr. HIGGINS of Louisiana) introduced the fol-
lowing bill; which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs 
A BILL 
To impose certain requirements relating to the renegotiation 
or reentry into the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action 
or other agreement relating to Iran’s nuclear program, 
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 ‘‘Iran China Account-
ability Act of 2024’’. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
Congress finds the following: 
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(1) The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, 
signed at Vienna July 14, 2015, provided the Is-
lamic 
Republic 
of 
Iran 
with 
more 
than 
$100,000,000,000 in sanctions relief, circumventing 
mandatory sanctions imposed pursuant to Acts of 
Congress. 
(2) In 2016, the United States delivered 
$400,000,000 in cash to the Islamic Republic of 
Iran. 
(3) On May 8, 2018, the United States with-
drew from the disastrous Joint Comprehensive Plan 
of Action and implemented a campaign of maximum 
economic pressure on the Islamic Republic of Iran, 
which will continue until the regime— 
(A) ends its nuclear program, its pursuit 
of ballistic missiles, and its support of terrorism 
and regional destabilization; and 
(B) releases all United States hostages. 
(4) The Islamic Republic of Iran and the Peo-
ple’s Republic of China signed a 25-year strategic 
economic cooperation agreement on March 27, 2021. 
The relationship between the 2 countries is a stra-
tegic partnership that aims to advance the influence 
of the People’s Republic of China in the Middle 
East. 
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(5) The strategic economic cooperation agree-
ment involves a transfer of $400,000,000,000 from 
the Chinese Communist Party to the Government of 
the Islamic Republic of Iran. 
(6) The Chinese Communist Party is commit-
ting an ongoing genocide against Uyghur Muslims in 
the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region and sup-
pressing religious freedom throughout the People’s 
Republic of China. 
(7) The Chinese Communist Party is sup-
pressing religious freedom by arbitrarily imprisoning 
Christians, raiding house churches, and attempting 
to shut down houses of worship not endorsed by the 
Government of the People’s Republic of China. 
(8) The Government of the Islamic Republic of 
Iran annually funds $100,000,000 to the terrorist 
organization Hamas to continue their mission of 
jihad against the people of Israel. 
(9) The United States Government— 
(A) unequivocally condemns the terrorist 
attacks incited by and originating from Israeli 
land currently occupied by Hamas; and 
(B) recognizes the right of Israel to defend 
itself from terrorist attacks incited by Hamas. 
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(10) The Government of the Islamic Republic of 
Iran is complicit in the October 7, 2023, terrorist 
attack against the people of Israel. By openly meet-
ing with senior leaders of Hamas after the terrorist 
attack, the Government of the Islamic Republic of 
Iran has publicly recognized their involvement such 
Hamas-led terrorist attack. 
(11) The Government of the Islamic Republic of 
Iran is— 
(A) perpetrating violence against its own 
people, including through the killing of pro-
testers and the persecution of women and reli-
gious minorities; and 
(B) involved in severe violations of human 
rights throughout the Middle East, including by 
supporting the brutal regime of Bashar al- 
Assad in Syria. 
(12) Since 2021, the People’s Republic of China 
has increased illicit oil purchases from the Islamic 
Republic of Iran. Such oil purchases would be per-
mitted if the United States lifts sanctions with re-
spect to Islamic Republic of Iran and re-enters the 
failed Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action. The Peo-
ple’s Republic of China remains the largest oil cus-
tomer of the Islamic Republic of Iran. 
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(13) A portion of the oil that the People’s Re-
public of China buys from the Islamic Republic of 
Iran and other suppliers is potentially being trans-
shipped to the Democratic People’s Republic of 
Korea. 
(14) The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action 
required that the United Nations arms embargo on 
the Islamic Republic of Iran expire in October 2020, 
which would have permitted the People’s Republic of 
China to sell arms to the Islamic Republic of Iran 
and vice versa. 
(15) President Joseph R. Biden, Jr., has 
sought to rejoin the Joint Comprehensive Plan of 
Action or a similar agreement, including by under-
taking talks with the Government of the Islamic Re-
public of Iran and the other parties to the Joint 
Comprehensive Plan of Action. 
(16) Officials in the administration of President 
Biden have acknowledged that rejoining a nuclear 
agreement with the Islamic Republic of Iran would 
entail an easing of the economic sanctions stipulated 
by the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action. 
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SEC. 3. LIMITATIONS WITH RESPECT TO ANY IRAN NU-
CLEAR AGREEMENT. 
(a) LIMITATIONS PRIOR TO ENTERING INTO NEGO-
TIATIONS.—No Federal funds may be obligated or ex-
pended to enter into any negotiation with the Government 
of the Islamic Republic of Iran with respect to an Iran 
nuclear agreement until the President certifies to Con-
gress that— 
(1) the Government of the Islamic Republic of 
Iran has terminated— 
(A) all agreements involving the transfer of 
funds to such Government from the People’s 
Republic of China; and 
(B) all agreements involving a strategic 
military or security partnership with the Peo-
ple’s Republic of China; 
(2) the Government of the People’s Republic of 
China has ceased to incarcerate Uyghur individuals 
in concentration camps in the Xinjiang Uyghur Au-
tonomous Region; 
(3) the Government of the Islamic Republic of 
Iran has terminated all ties and transfers of cash to 
Iranian proxy forces, including Hamas; and 
(4) the Government of the Islamic Republic of 
Iran has verified the destruction of any and all 
chemical weapons, materials, and infrastructure. 
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(b) REQUIREMENT
FOR
CONTENTS
OF
AGREE-
MENT.—No Federal funds may be obligated or expended 
for United States entry into any Iran nuclear agreement, 
and the President may not take any action (including in 
the form of an agenda, agreement, platform, or plan) to 
carry out the goals of such an agreement, unless such 
agreement certifies the destruction of any and all Iranian 
nuclear and missile capabilities, weapons, infrastructure, 
chemical weapons, and offensive cyber activity. 
(c) RATIFICATION REQUIRED.—Notwithstanding any 
other provision of law, any Iran nuclear agreement shall 
be deemed a treaty subject to the requirement that the 
Senate provide its advice and consent pursuant to article 
II, section 2, clause 2 of the Constitution of the United 
States. The President may not take any action (including 
in the form of an agenda, agreement, platform, or plan) 
to carry out the goals of such an agreement until the Sen-
ate has adopted a resolution of advice and consent with 
respect to that agreement. 
(d) REPORT REQUIRED.—The Secretary of State 
shall submit to Congress, prior to the submission of a pro-
posed Iran nuclear agreement to the Senate for its advice 
and consent in accordance with subsection (c), a report 
setting forth the manner and extent to which the negotia-
tion and terms of such proposed Iran nuclear agreement 
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comply with each limitation and requirement under this 
section. 
(e) IRAN NUCLEAR AGREEMENT DEFINED.—In this 
section, the term ‘‘Iran nuclear agreement’’ means— 
(1) the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, 
signed at Vienna July 14, 2015, by the Islamic Re-
public of Iran and by the People’s Republic of 
China, France, Germany, the Russian Federation, 
the United Kingdom, and the United States, with 
the High Representative of the European Union for 
Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, and all imple-
menting materials and agreements related to the 
Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action; and 
(2) any successor or other agreement exchang-
ing relief from international sanctions for restric-
tions on the nuclear program of the Islamic Republic 
of Iran. 
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