Sec. 101. Findings
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Congress finds the following: On November 5, 2018, the Secretary of the Treasury for the first time sanctioned Iranian banks for having materially assisted, sponsored, or provided financial, material, or technological support for, or goods or services to or in support of the human rights abuses of the Government of Iran, including— Ghavamin Bank, for providing services to the Law Enforcement Forces of Iran, which had been designated for complicity in serious human rights abuses in Iran, including operating detention centers where detained protestors were deprived of basic needs such as medical care ; and Ayandeh Bank, for providing services to the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting, Iran’s state-media apparatus, which had been designated for restricting or denying the free flow of information to or from the Iranian people … [and] was implicated in censoring multiple media outlets and airing forced confessions from political detainees .
Section 220 of the Iran Threat Reduction and Syria Human Rights Act of 2012 ( 22 U.S.C. 8726 ) authorizes the imposition of sanctions with respect to persons who knowingly and directly provide specialized financial messaging services to, or knowingly enable or facilitate direct or indirect access to such messaging services for, the Central Bank of Iran or certain other sanctioned Iranian financial institutions.