Title: A resolution calling upon the United Nations Security Council to adopt a resolution on Iran that extends the dates by which Annex B restrictions under Resolution 2231 are currently set to expire.
Policy area: International Affairs

Summary:
This resolution calls upon the United Nations Security Council to extend certain expiring restrictions placed on Iran and on arms technology suppliers to Iran, including an export ban prohibiting Iran from exporting weapons and an embargo preventing the sale of arms to Iran.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. Res. 509 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
S. RES. 509

Calling upon the United Nations Security Council to adopt a resolution 
  on Iran that extends the dates by which Annex B restrictions under 
              Resolution 2231 are currently set to expire.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           February 27, 2020

    Mr. Toomey (for himself, Ms. Rosen, Mr. Gardner, and Mr. Coons) 
submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee 
                          on Foreign Relations

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                               RESOLUTION


 
Calling upon the United Nations Security Council to adopt a resolution 
  on Iran that extends the dates by which Annex B restrictions under 
              Resolution 2231 are currently set to expire.

Whereas, on July 20, 2015, the United Nations Security Council adopted 
        Resolution 2231;
Whereas Annex B of Resolution 2231 imposed a number of restrictions on Iran and 
        on arms technology suppliers to Iran that will soon begin expiring;
Whereas the Government of Iran has never accepted the Annex B restrictions as 
        legitimate and has not agreed to abide by them;
Whereas Annex B of Resolution 2231 imposed an arms embargo on Iran that requires 
        Security Council approval for, among other things, the sale or transfer 
        to Iran of battle tanks, armored combat vehicles, large-caliber 
        artillery systems, combat aircraft, attack helicopters, warships, 
        missiles, and missile systems including man-portable air-defense 
        systems;
Whereas the arms embargo has limited the flow of advanced conventional weapons 
        to Iran;
Whereas some United Nations member states are already preparing to provide Iran 
        with advanced weapons systems upon expiration of the arms embargo;
Whereas Russian state news services have reported that the Russian Federation 
        and Iran are negotiating an arms sale that will provide Iran with 
        artillery systems, helicopters, combat aircraft, and tanks;
Whereas the arms embargo in Annex B of Resolution 2231 will expire on October 
        18, 2020;
Whereas Annex B of Resolution 2231 prohibits Iran from exporting weapons and 
        military equipment, including to foreign countries, its proxy militias 
        throughout the region, and terrorist organizations such as Hezbollah and 
        Katai'b Hezbollah;
Whereas Hassan Nasrallah, the Secretary-General of Hezbollah, which is estimated 
        to possess at least 100,000 rockets and missiles, has stated that the 
        terrorist group receives all of its weapons and missiles from Iran;
Whereas the arms export ban on Iran in Annex B of Resolution 2231 will expire on 
        October 18, 2020;
Whereas Annex B of Resolution 2231 banned travel and froze financial assets for 
        Iranian individuals and entities designated on a list established and 
        maintained pursuant to United Nations Security Council Resolution 1737 
        (2006) for their involvement in certain illicit behavior;
Whereas these travel bans and asset freezes will expire in October 2020 and 
        October 2023, respectively;
Whereas Annex B of Resolution 2231 banned United Nations member states from 
        supplying Iran's nuclear-capable ballistic missile program; and
Whereas this restriction in Annex B of Resolution 2231 will expire in October 
        2023: Now, therefore, be it
    Resolved, That the Senate--
            (1) asserts that the expiration of the aforementioned 
        restrictions on Iran and on arms technology suppliers to Iran 
        in Annex B of United Nations Security Council Resolution 2231 
        (2015) will enhance the ability of Iran to continue its 
        destabilizing actions in the Middle East that threaten the 
        security of the United States and that of our allies;
            (2) urges the international community to fully enforce the 
        aforementioned restrictions on Iran and on arms technology 
        suppliers to Iran in Annex B of United Nations Security Council 
        Resolution 2231; and
            (3) calls upon the United Nations Security Council to adopt 
        a resolution on Iran that extends the dates by which the 
        aforementioned restrictions on Iran and on arms technology 
        suppliers to Iran in Annex B are currently set to expire.
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