Federal · Title 22 — Foreign Relations and Intercourse

22 U.S.C. § 8711: Sense of Congress on enforcement of multilateral sanctions regime and expansion and implementation of sanctions laws

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prompt enforcement of the current multilateral sanctions regime with respect to Iran; intensified monitoring by the President and the designees of the President, including the Secretary of the Treasury, the Secretary of State, and senior officials in the intelligence community (as defined in section 401a(4) of title 50 ), as appropriate; more extensive use of extraordinary authorities provided for under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act ( 50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.) and other sanctions laws; reallocation of resources to provide the personnel necessary, within the Department of the Treasury, the Department of State, and the Department of Commerce, and, where appropriate, the intelligence community, to apply and enforce sanctions; and expanded cooperation with international sanctions enforcement efforts; the provision of energy-related services to Iran; the provision of insurance and reinsurance services to Iran; the provision of shipping services to Iran; and those Iranian financial institutions not yet designated for the imposition of sanctions that may be acting as intermediaries for Iranian financial institutions that are designated for the imposition of sanctions; and the activities of telecommunications, Internet, and satellite service providers, in and outside of Iran, to ensure that such providers are not participating in or facilitating, directly or indirectly, the evasion of the sanctions regime with respect to Iran or violations of the human rights of the people of Iran; the activities of financial institutions or other businesses or government agencies, in or outside of Iran, not yet designated for the imposition of sanctions; and urgent and ongoing evaluation of Iran’s energy, national security, financial, and telecommunications sectors, to gauge the effects of, and possible defects in, particular sanctions, with prompt efforts to correct any gaps in the existing sanctions regime with respect to Iran.

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