Sec. 10. Prohibition on funding for negotiations and implementation of any nuclear agreement with Iran without consent of Congress
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No funds authorized to be appropriated for fiscal year 2015 or any fiscal year thereafter may be obligated or expended to participate in a diplomatic negotiation with Iran or to implement any nuclear agreement with Iran until the date of the enactment of a joint resolution certifying that— the United States will make public the text of a long-term comprehensive agreement (as described in the Joint Plan of Action) relating to Iran's nuclear program; the United States has secured a mechanism to carry out justice and award compensation to the United States citizens who were held hostage in the United States Embassy in Tehran, Iran, in 1979; 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; does not have any ballistic missiles or cruise 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; and has addressed and clarified all outstanding issues raised by the International Atomic Energy Agency, including possible military dimensions of its nuclear program and measures related to the initiation of high explosives and neutron transport calculations; 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 President has submitted to Congress the notice and certification described in subsection (b).
The President may not terminate the designation of Iran as a state sponsor of terrorism unless— not later than 60 days before terminating that designation, the President submits to Congress— a notice of the President's intent to terminate the designation of Iran as a state sponsor of terrorism; and the certification described in paragraph (2); and there is enacted into law during the 60-day period described in subparagraph
(A)a joint resolution approving the termination of the designation. The certification described in this paragraph is the certification of the President that— the Government of Iran has not provided any support for acts of international terrorism during the one-year period preceding the submission of the notice under paragraph (1)(A); the Government of Iran has provided assurances that it will not support acts of international terrorism in the future; and the United States Government acknowledges Iran’s participation in, and demands Iran accept 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, 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. In this section: The term act of international terrorism has the meaning given that term in section 14 of the Iran Sanctions Act of 1996 ( Public Law 104–172 ; 50 U.S.C. 1701 note). The term Joint Plan of Action — means the Joint Plan of Action, signed at Geneva November 24, 2013, by Iran and by the United States, France, the Russian Federation, the People's Republic of China, the United Kingdom, and Germany; and includes all implementing materials and agreements related to the Joint Plan of Action, including the technical understandings reached on January 12, 2014, the extension agreed to on July 19, 2014, and the extension agreed to on November 24, 2014. The term state sponsor of terrorism means a country the government of which the Secretary of State determines has repeatedly provided support for acts of international terrorism pursuant to— section 6(j)(1)(A) of the Export Administration Act of 1979 ( 50 U.S.C. App. 2405(j)(1)(A) ) (as continued in effect pursuant to the International Emergency Economic Powers Act ( 50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq. )); section 40(d) of the Arms Export Control Act ( 22 U.S.C. 2780(d) ); or section 620A(a) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 ( 22 U.S.C. 2371(a) ).
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Prohibition on funding for negotiations and implementation of any nuclear agreement with Iran without consent of Congress
Pub. L.Pub. L. 104-172
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