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115TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 4498 
To prohibit military assistance to countries that engage in arms transfers 
and activities with respect to Iran, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
NOVEMBER 30, 2017 
Mr. CRIST (for himself and Mr. BILIRAKIS) introduced the following bill; 
which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs 
A BILL 
To prohibit military assistance to countries that engage in 
arms transfers and activities with respect to Iran, 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 ‘‘No Arms Sales to Iran 
Act’’. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
Congress finds the following: 
(1) United Nations Security Council Resolution 
2231 (2015) which endorses implementation of the 
Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action also provides 
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rity Council member states in order to prevent such 
transfers or activities. 
SEC. 4. REPORT. 
Not later than 90 days after the date of the enact-
ment of this Act, and annually thereafter, the Secretary 
of State shall submit to Congress a report on each covered 
activity or transfer, and the diplomatic responses of the 
United States to each such covered activity or transfer, 
that is proposed during the one-year period preceding the 
date of the submission of the report. 
SEC. 5. PROHIBITION ON MILITARY ASSISTANCE TO COUN-
TRIES THAT ENGAGE IN ARMS TRANSFERS 
AND ACTIVITIES WITH RESPECT TO IRAN. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Subject to subsection (c), and ef-
fective beginning on the date that is 180 days after the 
date of the enactment of this Act— 
(1) no military assistance, including military as-
sistance furnished under the Foreign Assistance Act 
of 1961, the Arms Export Control Act, or any other 
provision of law, may be provided to a county that 
engages in any covered activity or transfer; and 
(2) no license may be granted to export an item 
on the United States Munitions List under section 
38 of the Arms Export Control Act (22 U.S.C. 
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2778) or any other provision of law to any country 
that engages in any covered activity or transfer. 
(b) WAIVER.—The President may waive the prohibi-
tions under subsections (a) on a case-by-case basis with 
respect to a particular country if the President determines 
and reports to the appropriate congressional committees 
that it is important to the national interest of the United 
States to do so. 
SEC. 6. DEFINITIONS. 
In this Act: 
(1) APPROPRIATE
CONGRESSIONAL
COMMIT-
TEES.—The term ‘‘appropriate committees of Con-
gress’’ means— 
(A) the Committee on Armed Services, the 
Committee on Foreign Affairs, and the Com-
mittee on Appropriations of the House of Rep-
resentatives; and 
(B) the Committee on Armed Services, the 
Committee on Foreign Relations, and the Com-
mittee on Appropriations of the Senate. 
(2) COVERED
TRANSFER
OR
ACTIVITY.—The 
term ‘‘covered activity or transfer’’ means any arms 
transfer to or activity with Iran described in para-
graphs 2, 4, and 5 of Annex B of United Nations 
Security Council Resolution 2231 (2015) with re-
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spect to which a country has sought approval by the 
United Nations Security Council under such Resolu-
tion. 
(3) JOINT COMPREHENSIVE PLAN OF ACTION.— 
The term ‘‘Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action’’ 
means the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, 
agreed to at Vienna July 14, 2015, by 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 Secu-
rity Policy, and all implementing materials and 
agreements related to the Joint Comprehensive Plan 
of Action, and transmitted by the President to Con-
gress on July 19, 2015, pursuant to section 135(a) 
of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended by 
the Iran Nuclear Agreement Review Act of 2015 
(Public Law 114–17; 129 Stat. 201). 
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