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113TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 3292 
To prevent the Government of Iran from gaining a nuclear weapons capability 
and to maximize the United States diplomatic influence to achieve, con-
sistent with the national security interest of the United States and 
its allies and partners, a negotiated settlement with the Government 
of Iran regarding Iran’s nuclear weapons program. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
OCTOBER 15, 2013 
Mr. FRANKS of Arizona (for himself, Mr. CONAWAY, Mr. LAMBORN, Mr. KING 
of Iowa, Mr. STOCKMAN, Mr. HULTGREN, Mr. GOHMERT, Mr. AUSTIN 
SCOTT of Georgia, Mr. WEBER of Texas, Mr. PERRY, Mr. ROKITA, Mr. 
PEARCE, Mr. HARRIS, Mr. LAMALFA, Mrs. BLACKBURN, and Mr. WIL-
LIAMS) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee 
on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committees on Oversight and 
Government Reform and Financial Services, for a period to be subse-
quently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such 
provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned 
A BILL 
To prevent the Government of Iran from gaining a nuclear 
weapons capability and to maximize the United States 
diplomatic influence to achieve, consistent with the na-
tional security interest of the United States and its allies 
and partners, a negotiated settlement with the Govern-
ment of Iran regarding Iran’s nuclear weapons program. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘United States-Iran Nu-
clear Negotiations Act’’. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
Congress finds the following: 
(1) After a 30-year formal diplomatic relations 
drought and decades of repeated and direct threats 
to the United States, Iran and the United States re-
cently exchanged communication between high-rank-
ing government officials with the stated intent to ac-
celerate negotiations and relations. 
(2) Since at least the late 1980s, Iran has en-
gaged in a sustained and well-documented pattern of 
illicit and deceptive activities to acquire a nuclear 
weapons capability and has provided weapons, train-
ing, funding, and direction to terrorist groups. 
(3) Iran already possesses the necessary 
amount of low- and medium-enriched uranium that, 
if enriched further to weapons-grade level, can 
produce several nuclear weapons. 
(4) Iran has the advanced nuclear facilities and 
technology to carry out weapons-grade enrichment 
and the infrastructure to assemble, house and 
launch long-range ballistic weapons. 
(5) Since September 2005, the International 
Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has found Iran to be 
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in non-compliance with its safeguards agreement, 
which Iran is obligated to adhere to as a non-nu-
clear-weapon State Party to the Treaty on the Non- 
Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, done at Wash-
ington, London, and Moscow July 1, 1968, and en-
tered into force March 5, 1970. 
(6) The United Nations Security Council 
(UNSC) has adopted multiple resolutions since 2006 
demanding Iran’s full and sustained suspension of 
all uranium enrichment-related and reprocessing ac-
tivities and Iran’s full cooperation with the IAEA on 
all outstanding issues related to its nuclear activi-
ties, particularly those concerning the possible mili-
tary utilizations of its nuclear program. 
(7) On July 31, 2006, the UNSC adopted Res-
olution 1696 that calls on Tehran to suspend its en-
richment program and verify its compliance with the 
IAEA Board of Governors’ requirements. 
(8) On December 23, 2006, the UNSC adopted 
Resolution 1737 in response to Iran’s failure to com-
ply with Resolution 1696 and requires Iran to sus-
pend uranium enrichment and heavy-water reactor 
projects, and take other confidence-building meas-
ures. 
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(9) On March 24, 2007, the UNSC adopted 
Resolution 1747 as a result of Iran’s failure to com-
ply with the previous two resolutions. It calls on 
Iran to take measures required by the IAEA Board 
of Governors and outlined in Resolution 1737 to 
verify that its nuclear program has only peaceful 
purposes and to reach a long-term comprehensive 
agreement with the P5+1 nations (the United 
States, the United Kingdom, France, Russia, China, 
and Germany). 
(10) On March 3, 2008, the UNSC adopted 
Resolution 1803 as a response to Iran’s decision to 
not abide by previous resolutions and calls for Iran 
to halt its enrichment program and comply with pre-
vious UNSC and IAEA resolutions. 
(11) On September 27, 2008, the UNSC adopt-
ed Resolution 1835 which reaffirms the four pre-
vious resolutions. 
(12) On June 9, 2010, the UNSC adopted Res-
olution 1929 which reiterates the UNSC’s demands 
from previous resolutions that Iran halt all enrich-
ment activity and to cooperate with IAEA efforts to 
determine that Iran does not have a nuclear weap-
ons program. 
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(13) On June 9, 2011, the UNSC adopted Res-
olution 1984 which recalls all previous resolutions 
and extends the mandate of the Panel of Experts 
that monitors sanctions on Iran’s nuclear program 
for a period of one year. 
(14) On June 7, 2012, the UNSC adopted Res-
olution 2049 which extends the mandate of the 
Panel of Experts to monitor the implementation of 
international sanctions against Iran and to provide 
several reports on compliance with international 
sanctions. 
(15) Congress has passed and the President has 
signed into law legislation imposing significant eco-
nomic and diplomatic sanctions to pressure Iran to 
abandon its pursuit of nuclear weapons and end its 
support for terrorism. 
(16) The Department of State has designated 
Iran as a state sponsor of terrorism since 1984 and 
for the past decade has characterized Iran as the 
‘‘most active state sponsor of terrorism’’ in the 
world. 
(17) During the State of the Union Address on 
January 24, 2012, President Barack Obama stated, 
‘‘Let there be no doubt: America is determined to 
prevent Iran from getting a nuclear weapon, and I 
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will take no options off the table to achieve that 
goal.’’. 
(18) On March 4, 2012, President Obama stat-
ed, ‘‘Iran’s leaders should understand that I do not 
have a policy of containment; I have a policy to pre-
vent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon.’’. 
(19) On October 22, 2012, President Obama 
said of Iran, ‘‘The clock is ticking . . . And we’re 
going to make sure that if they do not meet the de-
mands of the international community, then we are 
going to take all options necessary to make sure 
they don’t have a nuclear weapon.’’. 
(20) Iran Supreme Leader Khamenei’s newly 
elected President, Hassan Rouhani, served as a 
member of Iran’s Supreme National Security Coun-
cil since 1989, spent 16 years as the Supreme Na-
tional Security Council’s secretary, and was Iran’s 
nuclear negotiator from 2003 to 2005. 
(21) In a secret 2004 speech that leaked in 
2006, Rouhani acknowledged that he used the nego-
tiations to buy time for the advancement of Iran’s 
nuclear program: ‘‘While we were talking with the 
Europeans in Tehran, we were installing equipment 
in parts of the facility in Isfahan [the site of Iran’s 
uranium conversion plant], but we still had a long 
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