Sec. 2. Sense of Congress
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It is the sense of Congress that— the Islamic Republic of Iran has long provided hundreds of millions of dollars in material support to Hamas and other terrorist groups, such as Palestinian Islamic Jihad, that directly threaten Israel; Iran poses a threat to regional and global security and has earned approximately $80,000,000,000 in oil revenues since 2021; the People’s Republic of China, seeking to secure reliable sources of Middle Eastern energy, has purchased roughly $47,000,000,000 in Iranian petroleum products since 2021 and is undercutting the enforcement of sanctions imposed by the United States with respect to Iran; illicit purchases of Iranian petroleum products by the People's Republic of China and other countries fund the Iranian regime’s suppression of human rights in Iran, provide valuable resources for Iran’s terrorist proxies, and provide additional resources for support by Iran for the Russian Federation in its unprovoked war in Ukraine, contrary to United States policy; lack of sanctions and sanctions enforcement directly undercuts United States policy objectives in the Indo-Pacific region, Europe, the Middle East, and beyond; increasing encroachment by the People's Republic of China in the Middle East and North Africa, include involvement of the People's Republic of China in illicit oil trade, runs counter to the national security interests of the United States; and the United States should immediately enforce existing sanctions, including sanctions provided for in Executive Order 13846 ( 50 U.S.C. 1701 note; relating to reimposing certain sanctions with respect to Iran), and expand sanctions designations to include persons that store Iranian oil, ship-to-ship oil transfer operators, ports and port operators, refineries and refinery operators, and other individuals and entities, particularly in the People's Republic of China, dealing in Iranian-origin oil and petrochemicals.
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