Sec. 7. Prohibition on United States assistance to countries assisting proliferation activities by Iran, North Korea, or Syria
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The President shall prohibit assistance (other than humanitarian assistance) under the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 and shall not issue export licenses for defense articles or defense services under the Arms Export Control Act to— a foreign country the government of which the President has received credible information is assisting Iran, North Korea, or Syria in the acquisition, development, or proliferation of weapons of mass destruction or ballistic missiles; or a foreign country identified in the most-recent report transmitted to the appropriate congressional committees under section 6(a). The President is authorized to provide assistance described in subsection
(a)to a foreign country subject to the prohibition in subsection
(a)if the President determines and notifies the appropriate congressional committees that there is credible information that the government of the country is no longer assisting Iran, North Korea, or Syria in the acquisition, development, or proliferation of weapons of mass destruction or ballistic missiles and has taken appropriate steps to correct the behavior that resulted in it being included in the report in section 6(A). In this section, the term assisting means providing material or financial support of any kind, including purchasing of material, technology or equipment from Iran, North Korea, or Syria.