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Reinforcing Sanctions on Iranian Terrorists Act
To provide for the application of sanctions regarding Mahan Air.
Summary
This bill directs the President to determine within 90 days whether to impose sanctions on Iran's state-owned Iran Airports Company under Executive Order 13224, which targets terrorists and their supporters. The determination is based on findings that Mahan Air, which was previously designated as a terrorist-supporting entity in 2011, operates flights to Syria to transport fighters and uses the same aircraft for commercial routes to international destinations. The Iran Airports Company, which operates and holds civilian airports in Iran, facilitates Mahan Air's operations across more than two dozen Iranian airports. The bill seeks to strengthen existing sanctions on Mahan Air by potentially restricting its ability to operate through Iranian airport infrastructure controlled by the state-owned company.
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Sponsor (1)
- Rep. Mills, Cory [R-FL-7] (R-FL)
5 cosponsors
Money behind the sponsor
Top reported contributors to Cory Mills’s campaign committee (2024 cycle) — who funds the bill’s sponsor, not a claim about this bill. Data from FEC.
- NULL $11,592
- FULL SAIL UNIVERSITY $10,000
- ECS $6,600
- PIONEER JETS $6,600
- ENGINEERING AND COMPUTER SIMULATIONS $6,600
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Actions (2)
- Feb 21, 2025 Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs. · house
- Feb 21, 2025 Introduced in House
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Full text
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
February 21, 2025
Mr. Mills (for himself, Ms. Salazar, Mr. Babin, Mr. Wilson of South Carolina, and Mr. LaMalfa) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs
A BILL
To provide for the application of sanctions regarding Mahan Air.
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 “Reinforcing Sanctions on Iranian Terrorists Act”.
SEC. 2. APPLICATION OF SANCTIONS REGARDING MAHAN AIR.
(a) Findings.—Congress finds the following:
(1) Mahan Air was added on October 12, 2011, to the Specially Designated Nationals list maintained by the Office of Foreign Assets Control of the Department of the Treasury, freezing its assets under United States jurisdiction and prohibiting transactions with United States parties, pursuant to Executive Order 13224 (September 23, 2001; relating to blocking property and prohibiting transactions with persons who commit, threaten to commit, or support terrorism), which targets terrorists and their supporters.
(2) In announcing additional sanctions against Mahan Air on March 24, 2016, the Department of the Treasury stated that “Based in Tehran, Iran, Mahan Air has facilitated [Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps—Qods Force] transportation and arms and funds shipments. Mahan Air also continues to support the Iranian government’s destabilizing actions in the region by conducting flights to Syria in order to transport fighters. Mahan Air regularly uses the same aircraft it flies to Syria to fly commercial passenger routes to international destinations in Europe, the Middle East, and Asia.”.
(3) Mahan Air reportedly serves the following destinations in Iran: Abadan Airport, Ahvaz International Airport, Ardabil Airport, Persian Gulf Airport, Bandar Abbas International Airport, Birjand International Airport, Bojnord International Airport, Iranshahr Airport, Isfahan International Airport, Kalaleh Airport, Kerman Airport, Shahid Ashrafi Esffahani Airport, Khorramabad Airport, Kish Airport, Larestan International Airport, Mashhad International Airport, Queshm International Airport, Sahahdaj Airport, Dasht-e Naz Airport, Shiraz International Airport, Sirjan Airport, Tabriz International Airport, Tehran Imam Khomeini International Airport, Mehrabad International Airport, Zabol Airport, Zahedan International Airport, and Zanjan Airport.
(4) The Iran Airports Company, a State-owned enterprise, is the holding and operating company for civilian airports in Iran that facilitates Mahan Air’s operations.
(5) Foreign persons that assist in, sponsor, or provide financial, material, or technological support for, or financial or other services to or in support of Mahan Air should be subject to United States sanctions pursuant to Executive Order 13224.
(b) Determination.—
(1) In general.—Not later than 90 days after the date of the enactment of this section, the President shall transmit to the appropriate congressional committees a determination as to whether to apply sanctions, in whole or in part, with respect to the Iran Airports Company pursuant to Executive Order 13224.
(2) Form.—The determination required by paragraph (1) shall be submitted in unclassified form but may contain a classified annex. <all>
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