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SEC. 1305. ENHANCED TRAINING IN PROCESSING AND FA-
CILITATING STUDENT VISAS. 
(a) TRAINING PROGRAMS.—Chapter 7 of the Foreign 
Service Act of 1980 (22 U.S.C. 3901 et seq.) (relating 
to career development, training, and orientation) is 
amended by adding at the end the following new section: 
‘‘SEC. 708. TRAINING IN PROCESSING AND FACILITATING 
VISA APPLICATIONS FOR STUDENTS AND EX-
CHANGE 
VISITORS 
FOR 
STUDY 
IN 
THE 
UNITED STATES. 
‘‘The Secretary shall establish a training program for 
members of the Service who have responsibilities related 
to the issuance of visas to prepare such members for the 
unique challenges that visa applicants face in completing 
the F–1 and J–1 nonimmigrant visa application process 
and to provide such members with proven tools, including 
in the area of consular services, public diplomacy, outreach 
to non-governmental institutions and educational institu-
tions, and public outreach to combat perceptions that the 
United States is no longer a welcoming place for foreign 
citizens to study or to participate in exchange programs.’’.
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SEC. 1306. ENHANCED DIPLOMATIC EFFORTS TO NEGO-
TIATE 
FAVORABLE 
RECIPROCAL 
AGREE-
MENTS WITH FOREIGN GOVERNMENTS CON-
CERNING STUDENT VISA TERM LIMITS. 
The Secretary of State should undertake a sustained 
diplomatic dialogue with key foreign governments, includ-
ing the Government of the People’s Republic of China and 
the Government of the Russian Federation, aimed at re-
negotiating the terms of existing reciprocal agreements to 
provide for extended validity of student and exchange visas 
in order to reduce the need for frequent renewals of F–
1 and J–1 nonimmigrant visas by foreign students. 
TITLE XIV—MISCELLANEOUS 
PROVISIONS 
Subtitle A—General Provisions 
SEC. 1401. STATEMENT OF POLICY RELATING TO DEMOC-
RACY IN IRAN. 
(a) FINDINGS.—Congress finds the following: 
(1) Iran is neither free nor democratic. Men 
and women are not treated equally in Iran, women 
are legally deprived of internationally recognized 
human rights, and religious freedom is not respected 
under the laws of Iran. Undemocratic institutions, 
such as the Guardians Council, thwart the decisions 
of elected leaders.
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(2) The April 2005 report of the Department of 
State states that Iran remained the most active 
state sponsor of terrorism in 2004. 
(3) That report also states that Iran continues 
to provide funding, safe-haven, training, and weap-
ons to known terrorist groups, including Hizballah, 
Hamas, the Palestine Islamic Jihad, al-Aqsa Mar-
tyrs Brigade, and the Popular Front for the Libera-
tion of Palestine, and has harbored senior members 
of al-Qaeda. 
(b) POLICY.—It is the policy of the United States 
that—
(1) currently, there is not a free and fully 
democratic government in Iran; 
(2) the United States supports transparent, full 
democracy in Iran; 
(3) the United States supports the rights of the 
Iranian people to choose their system of government; 
and 
(4) the United States condemns the brutal 
treatment, imprisonment, and torture of Iranian ci-
vilians who express political dissent. 
SEC. 1402. IRANIAN NUCLEAR ACTIVITIES. 
(a) FINDINGS.—Congress finds the following:
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(1) Iran remains the world’s leading sponsors of 
international terrorism and is on the Department of 
State’s list of countries that provide support for acts 
of international terrorism. 
(2) Iran has repeatedly called for the destruc-
tion of Israel, and Iran supports organizations, such 
as Hizballah, Hamas, and the Palestine Islamic 
Jihad, that deny Israel’s right to exist and are re-
sponsible for terrorist attacks against Israel. 
(3) The Ministry of Defense of the Government 
of Iran confirmed in July 2003 that it had success-
fully conducted the final test of the Shahab-3 mis-
sile, giving Iran an operational intermediate-range 
ballistic missile capable of striking both Israel and 
United States troops throughout the Middle East 
and Afghanistan. 
(4) Inspections by the International Atomic En-
ergy Agency (IAEA) in Iran have revealed signifi-
cant undeclared activities, including plutonium re-
processing efforts. 
(5) Plutonium reprocessing is a necessary step 
in a nuclear weapons program that uses plutonium 
created in a reactor. 
(6) Iran continues to assert its right to pursue 
nuclear power and related technology, continues con-
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structing a heavy water reactor that is ideal for 
making plutonium for weapons, and has not fully co-
operated with the ongoing investigation by the IAEA 
of its nuclear activities. 
(7) The United States has publicly opposed the 
completion of reactors at the Bushehr nuclear power 
plant because the transfer of civilian nuclear tech-
nology and training could help to advance Iran’s nu-
clear weapons program. 
(8) Russia, in spite of strong international con-
cern that Iran intended to use civilian nuclear en-
ergy plants to develop nuclear weapons, provided 
Iran with support to complete the Bushehr nuclear 
facility. 
(9) Russia intends to begin supplying the 
Bushehr nuclear facility with fuel in June 2005, and 
the Bushehr nuclear plant is expected to begin oper-
ation at the beginning of 2006. 
(10) The Iranian parliament has ratified a bill 
supporting the construction of 20 new nuclear power 
plants. 
(b) SENSE OF CONGRESS.—It is the sense of Con-
gress that—
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(1) Russia’s provision of assistance to Iran on 
the Bushehr nuclear reactor is inconsistent with the 
nonproliferation goals of the United States; 
(2) Iran’s stated plans to construct 20 new nu-
clear facilities and its development of nuclear tech-
nologies, 
coupled 
with 
acknowledged 
and 
unacknowledged ties to terrorist groups, constitute a 
threat to global peace and security; and 
(3) the national security interests of the United 
States will best be served if the United States devel-
ops and implements a long-term strategy to halt all 
foreign nuclear cooperation with Iran. 
(c) STATEMENT OF CONGRESS.—Congress calls upon 
the leaders of the governments of the G–8 to—
(1) insist that the Government of Russia termi-
nate all assistance, including fuel shipments, to the 
Bushehr nuclear facility in Iran; and 
(2) condition Russia’s continued membership in 
the G–8 on Russia’s termination of all assistance, 
including fuel shipments, to the Bushehr facility and 
to any other nuclear plants in Iran. 
SEC. 1403. LOCATION OF INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTIONS IN 
AFRICA. 
(a) STATEMENT OF CONGRESS.—Congress declares 
that, for the purpose of maintaining regional balances with