Sec. 405. Report on sanctions relief going to terrorism or destabilizing activities
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Not later than 180 days after the enactment of this Act, and annually thereafter, the Secretary of the State, in consultation with the Secretary of the Treasury, shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees a report describing— the status of United States sanctions on Iran; the reimposition and renewed enforcement of secondary sanctions on Iran; the impact such sanctions have had on Iran’s support for terrorism including Hamas, Hezbollah, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, and other foreign terrorist organizations; the impact such sanctions have had on Iran’s military budget, including the budget of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps; the impact such sanctions have had on the budget and resources available to the Basij, and how such sanctions have affected the ability of the Basij to commit gross human rights abuses against the people of Iran; the impact such sanctions have had on Iran’s support to the al-Assad regime in Syria and to Iranian backed militias operating in Syria; the impact that such sanctions have had on Iran’s support for Ansarallah, also known as the Houthis, in Yemen; and the impact that lifting such sanctions would have on Iran’s ability to commit human rights abuses against the people of Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, and Yemen, including a detailed description of whether lifting such sanctions would increase the resources available for Iran and its proxy militias to support gross human rights abuses such as torture, extrajudicial killings, or the killing of protesters in Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, and Yemen.
The report required by paragraph
(1)shall be submitted in unclassified form, but may contain a classified annex if necessary. The unclassified portion of such report shall be made available on a publicly available internet website of the Federal Government. In this section, the term appropriate congressional committees means— the Committee on Armed Services, the Committee on Foreign Affairs, the Committee on Financial Services; and the Committee on Armed Services, the Committee on Foreign Relations, the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, and the Committee on the Judiciary of the Senate.