Sec. 10. Prohibition on funding for negotiations with Iran without consent of Congress
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No funds authorized to be appropriated for fiscal year 2014 or any fiscal year thereafter may be obligated or expended to participate in a diplomatic negotiation with Iran until the date of the enactment of a joint resolution certifying that— the Government of Iran has freed all American prisoners of conscience who are being unjustly held in Iranian jails; the Government of Iran is complying with all inspections conducted by the International Atomic Energy Agency to fulfill its obligations under the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, done at Washington, London, and Moscow July 1, 1968, and entered into force March 5, 1970 (commonly known as the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty ), to which Iran is a party; the United States can verifiably determine, through certification by the International Atomic Energy Agency, that the Government of Iran— has dismantled its nuclear program in its entirety, including all centrifuges, capabilities, and facilities for enrichment and reprocessing of uranium and plutonium; has relinquished all stockpiles of enriched uranium; and does not have any ballistic missiles with a range of 300 kilometers or more and a payload of 500 kilograms or more and has dismantled its research and development programs for such weapons; the Secretary of the Treasury no longer finds that the Central Bank of Iran is a financial institution of primary money laundering concern pursuant to section 5318A of title 31, United States Code; and the Government of Iran has demonstrated its renunciation of state-sponsored terrorism by acknowledging its participation in, assisting the investigation, if any, into, relinquishing any suspects currently harbored by the Government of Iran, and accepting legal responsibility for— the bombing of the Israeli embassy in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on March 17, 1992; the bombing of the World Trade Center in New York on February 26, 1993; the bombing of the Asociación Mutual Israelita Argentina Jewish Community Center in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on July 18, 1994; and the bombing of the Khobar Towers in Khobar, Saudi Arabia, on June 25, 1996.