United States-Iran Nuclear Negotiations Act - States that it is the policy of Congress that it is in the national security interest of the United States and its allies and partners to ensure that Iran: (1) halts all uranium enrichment and identifies all enrichment sites, (2) removes and transfers to a third party under the auspices of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) all uranium enriched to a 20% and higher threshold, (3) closes the Fordow uranium enrichment facility, and (4) ceases developing reactors capable of producing plutonium and the importation and domestic manufacturing of all centrifuges for enriching uranium.
Expresses the sense of Congress that if these objectives are met it shall be U.S. policy to enter into a negotiated settlement regarding nuclear activities in Iran.
Declares that the United States is capable, willing, and ready to use military force to prevent Iran from obtaining or developing a nuclear weapons capability.
Acknowledges that this Act constitutes current consultation with the President on Iran in order to provide for application of all options to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapons capability and provides consent to the appropriate use of force against legitimate targets in Iran to: (1) uphold and implement all relevant United Nations (U.N.) Security Council resolutions regarding Iran's nuclear program, (2) deter Iran's development of nuclear weapons in order to protect the national security interests of the United States and its allies and partners, and (3) degrade Iran's capacity to develop such weapons in the future.
States that, if any business, firm, or entity has not terminated the provision of goods, services, or technology in Iran or with any Iranian-controlled entity, the President may: (1) prohibit that business, firm, or entity from receiving any U.S. government contract or accessing U.S. capital markets; and (2) in the case of a business, firm, or entity that is a foreign financial institution, prohibit or impose strict conditions on the opening or maintaining in the United States of a correspondent account or payable-through account.
[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3292 Introduced in House (IH)]
113th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 3292
To prevent the Government of Iran from gaining a nuclear weapons
capability and to maximize the United States diplomatic influence to
achieve, consistent with the national security interest of the United
States and its allies and partners, a negotiated settlement with the
Government of Iran regarding Iran's nuclear weapons program.
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
October 15, 2013
Mr. Franks of Arizona (for himself, Mr. Conaway, Mr. Lamborn, Mr. King
of Iowa, Mr. Stockman, Mr. Hultgren, Mr. Gohmert, Mr. Austin Scott of
Georgia, Mr. Weber of Texas, Mr. Perry, Mr. Rokita, Mr. Pearce, Mr.
Harris, Mr. LaMalfa, Mrs. Blackburn, and Mr. Williams) introduced the
following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs,
and in addition to the Committees on Oversight and Government Reform
and Financial Services, for a period to be subsequently determined by
the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall
within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned
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A BILL
To prevent the Government of Iran from gaining a nuclear weapons
capability and to maximize the United States diplomatic influence to
achieve, consistent with the national security interest of the United
States and its allies and partners, a negotiated settlement with the
Government of Iran regarding Iran's nuclear weapons program.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``United States-Iran Nuclear
Negotiations Act''.
SEC. 2. FINDINGS.
Congress finds the following:
(1) After a 30-year formal diplomatic relations drought and
decades of repeated and direct threats to the United States,
Iran and the United States recently exchanged communication
between high-ranking government officials with the stated
intent to accelerate negotiations and relations.
(2) Since at least the late 1980s, Iran has engaged in a
sustained and well-documented pattern of illicit and deceptive
activities to acquire a nuclear weapons capability and has
provided weapons, training, funding, and direction to terrorist
groups.
(3) Iran already possesses the necessary amount of low- and
medium-enriched uranium that, if enriched further to weapons-
grade level, can produce several nuclear weapons.
(4) Iran has the advanced nuclear facilities and technology
to carry out weapons-grade enrichment and the infrastructure to
assemble, house and launch long-range ballistic weapons.
(5) Since September 2005, the International Atomic Energy
Agency (IAEA) has found Iran to be in non-compliance with its
safeguards agreement, which Iran is obligated to adhere to as a
non-nuclear-weapon State Party to 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.
(6) The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) has adopted
multiple resolutions since 2006 demanding Iran's full and
sustained suspension of all uranium enrichment-related and
reprocessing activities and Iran's full cooperation with the
IAEA on all outstanding issues related to its nuclear
activities, particularly those concerning the possible military
utilizations of its nuclear program.
(7) On July 31, 2006, the UNSC adopted Resolution 1696 that
calls on Tehran to suspend its enrichment program and verify
its compliance with the IAEA Board of Governors' requirements.
(8) On December 23, 2006, the UNSC adopted Resolution 1737
in response to Iran's failure to comply with Resolution 1696
and requires Iran to suspend uranium enrichment and heavy-water
reactor projects, and take other confidence-building measures.
(9) On March 24, 2007, the UNSC adopted Resolution 1747 as
a result of Iran's failure to comply with the previous two
resolutions. It calls on Iran to take measures required by the
IAEA Board of Governors and outlined in Resolution 1737 to
verify that its nuclear program has only peaceful purposes and
to reach a long-term comprehensive agreement with the P5+1
nations (the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Russia,
China, and Germany).
(10) On March 3, 2008, the UNSC adopted Resolution 1803 as
a response to Iran's decision to not abide by previous
resolutions and calls for Iran to halt its enrichment program
and comply with previous UNSC and IAEA resolutions.
(11) On September 27, 2008, the UNSC adopted Resolution
1835 which reaffirms the four previous resolutions.
(12) On June 9, 2010, the UNSC adopted Resolution 1929
which reiterates the UNSC's demands from previous resolutions
that Iran halt all enrichment activity and to cooperate with
IAEA efforts to determine that Iran does not have a nuclear
weapons program.
(13) On June 9, 2011, the UNSC adopted Resolution 1984
which recalls all previous resolutions and extends the mandate
of the Panel of Experts that monitors sanctions on Iran's
nuclear program for a period of one year.
(14) On June 7, 2012, the UNSC adopted Resolution 2049
which extends the mandate of the Panel of Experts to monitor
the implementation of international sanctions against Iran and
to provide several reports on compliance with international
sanctions.
(15) Congress has passed and the President has signed into
law legislation imposing significant economic and diplomatic
sanctions to pressure Iran to abandon its pursuit of nuclear
weapons and end its support for terrorism.
(16) The Department of State has designated Iran as a state
sponsor of terrorism since 1984 and for the past decade has
characterized Iran as the ``most active state sponsor of
terrorism'' in the world.
(17) During the State of the Union Address on January 24,
2012, President Barack Obama stated, ``Let there be no doubt:
America is determined to prevent Iran from getting a nuclear
weapon, and I will take no options off the table to achieve
that goal.''.
(18) On March 4, 2012, President Obama stated, ``Iran's
leaders should understand that I do not have a policy of
containment; I have a policy to prevent Iran from obtaining a
nuclear weapon.''.
(19) On October 22, 2012, President Obama said of Iran,
``The clock is ticking . . . And we're going to make sure that
if they do not meet the demands of the international community,
then we are going to take all options necessary to make sure
they don't have a nuclear weapon.''.
(20) Iran Supreme Leader Khamenei's newly elected
President, Hassan Rouhani, served as a member of Iran's Supreme
National Security Council since 1989, spent 16 years as the
Supreme National Security Council's secretary, and was Iran's
nuclear negotiator from 2003 to 2005.
(21) In a secret 2004 speech that leaked in 2006, Rouhani
acknowledged that he used the negotiations to buy time for the
advancement of Iran's nuclear program: ``While we were talking
with the Europeans in Tehran, we were installing equipment in
parts of the facility in Isfahan [the site of Iran's uranium
conversion plant], but we still had a long way to go to
complete the project. In fact, by creating a calm environment,
we were able to complete the work in Isfahan.''.
(22) Since Barack Obama has become President, Iran has
tripled the number of operating centrifuges to 15,000 and has
expanded the Natanz enrichment facility and its newer, deep
underground plant at Fordow where it has installed hundreds of
more advanced machines (the IR-2) which are capable of tripling
the production rate, drastically reducing the time it would
need to break out and produce weapons-grade materials.
(23) Iran has continued to construct the Arak heavy water
reactor that is suitable for plutonium production.
(24) Iran's illicit pursuit and development of nuclear
weapons and its foreign policy conduct and actions constitute a
grave threat to regional stability, world peace, global economy
and energy markets, and the national security interests of the
United States and its allies and partners.
(25) A nuclear weapons-capable Iran, with intercontinental
ballistic capabilities, would pose a direct nuclear and high
altitude electromagnetic pulse (HEMP) threat to the United
States and its allies.
(26) A nuclear weapons-capable Iran would likely lead
directly to the proliferation of nuclear weapons in such nearby
powers as Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and Turkey, thus increasing the
risk of regional nuclear confrontation.
SEC. 3. SUPPORT FOR UNITED STATES DIPLOMATIC EFFORTS.
(a) Statement of Policy.--It is the policy of Congress that it is
in the national security interest of the United States and its allies
and partners to ensure the following objectives with respect to Iran
are achieved:
(1) Iran permanently halts all uranium enrichment and
identifies all sites where such enrichment is occurring.
(2) Iran removes, and transfers to a third party under the
auspices of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), all
uranium enriched to a 20 percent and higher threshold.
(3) Iran closes the uranium enrichment facility at Fordow,
near Qom, Iran.
(4) Iran ceases developing reactors capable of producing
plutonium and ceases the importation and domestic manufacturing
of all centrifuges for enriching uranium.
(b) Sense of Congress.--
(1) In general.--It is the sense of Congress that if the
objectives described in paragraphs (1) through (4) of
subsection (a) are met, it shall be the policy of the United
States to enter into a negotiated settlement regarding nuclear
activities in Iran that includes the terms described in
paragraph (2) of this subsection.
(2) Terms described.--The terms referred to in paragraph
(1) are the following:
(A) The Government of Iran reaffirms its commitment
to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear
Weapons and ratifies and implements all provisions of
the Additional Protocol.
(B) Iran ceases the development and testing of
long-range ballistic weapons.
(C) Iran permits unfettered access by IAEA
officials to inspect and verify its compliance to IAEA
safeguards and the IAEA Board of Governors'
obligations.
(D) Iran ceases to provide weapons, training,
funding, and direction to terrorist groups, including
Hamas, Hezbollah, Shiite militias in Iraq, and the
regime of Bashar al Assad in Syria.
(E) Iran demonstrates peaceful foreign policy
conduct and actions and issues full recognition of its
neighbors' sovereignty, including Israel.
(F) Iran ceases all threats against the United
States and Israel.
SEC. 4. MILITARY READINESS AND CONGRESSIONAL CONSENT.
(a) Declaration of Policy.--Congress declares that the United
States is wholly capable, willing, and ready to use military force to
prevent Iran from obtaining or developing a nuclear weapons capability.
(b) Congressional Consent.--
(1) In general.--To maximize the Administration's
diplomatic leverage to achieve, consistent with the national
security interests of the United States and its allies and
partners, a negotiated settlement with the Government of Iran
regarding Iran's nuclear weapons program, and consistent with
the President's authority under article II, section 2 of the
Constitution and pursuant to the War Powers Resolution (50
U.S.C. 1541 et seq.), at such time when the President
determines that--
(A) Iran is using the cover of diplomacy to
continue advancing its nuclear program to acquire a
nuclear weapons capability,
(B) diplomatic efforts have failed to mitigate
Iran's nuclear enrichment program in documented,
inspected, and verifiable ways, or
(C) Iran poses a threat to the national security
interests of the United States and its allies and
partners,
Congress hereby acknowledges that this Act constitutes current
consultation with the President on Iran in order to provide for
swift application of all options to prevent Iran from obtaining
a nuclear weapons capability and provides consent to the
necessary and appropriate use of force against legitimate
targets in Iran to achieve the objectives described in
paragraph (2).
(2) Objectives described.--The objectives referred to in
paragraph (1) are the following:
(A) Uphold and implement all relevant United
Nations Security Council resolutions regarding Iran's
nuclear program.
(B) Deter Iran's development of nuclear weapons in
order to protect the national security interests of the
United States and to protect United States allies and
partners against the development and transfer of such
weapons to rogue regimes and non-state actors.
(C) Degrade Iran's capacity to develop such weapons
in the future.
SEC. 5. IMPOSITION OF SANCTIONS WITH RESPECT TO IRAN.
(a) Authorization for Imposition of Sanctions.--If any business,
firm, or entity has not terminated the provision of goods, services, or
technology in Iran or with any Iranian-controlled entity, the President
may--
(1) prohibit that business, firm, or entity from receiving
any United States Government contract or accessing United
States capital markets; and
(2) in the case of a business, firm, or entity that is a
foreign financial institution, prohibit, or impose strict
conditions on, the opening or maintaining in the United States
of a correspondent account or payable-through account by the
business, firm, or entity.
(b) Definitions.--In this section:
(1) Business, firm, or entity.--The term ``business'',
``firm'', or ``entity''--
(A) means a partnership, association, trust, joint
venture, corporation, company, governmental, quasi-
governmental or non-governmental body, affiliate or
other organization; and
(B) includes any affiliate, subsidiary, or branch
thereof.
(2) Iran.--The term ``Iran'' means the Government of the
Islamic Republic of Iran, including the central bank or
monetary authority of that Government and any agency or
instrumentality of that Government.
(3) Iranian-controlled entity.--The term ``Iranian-
controlled entity'' means a partnership, association, trust,
joint venture, corporation, affiliate or other organization in
which the Government of Iran--
(A) holds more than 50 percent of the equity
interest by vote or value in the entity;
(B) holds a majority of seats on the board of
directors of the entity; or
(C) otherwise controls the actions, policies, or
personnel decisions of the entity.
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Introduced in House
Introduced in House
Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committees on Oversight and Government Reform, and Financial Services, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committees on Oversight and Government Reform, and Financial Services, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committees on Oversight and Government Reform, and Financial Services, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H6669-6670)
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