[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3259 Introduced in House (IH)]

114th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3259

To grant authority to the President to detain non-diplomatic officials 
   of the Government of Iran in the United States and non-diplomatic 
 officials of the Government of Iran in certain other countries until 
all United States citizens held by the Government of Iran are released 
       and returned to the United States, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 28, 2015

 Mr. Rohrabacher introduced the following bill; which was referred to 
                    the Committee on Foreign Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
To grant authority to the President to detain non-diplomatic officials 
   of the Government of Iran in the United States and non-diplomatic 
 officials of the Government of Iran in certain other countries until 
all United States citizens held by the Government of Iran are released 
       and returned to the United States, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. CONGRESSIONAL FINDING.

    Congress finds that the Government of Iran is unjustly holding at 
least three United States citizens, Jason Rezaian, Saeed Abedini, and 
Amir Hekmati, and possibly Robert Levinson, as hostages.

SEC. 2. AUTHORITY TO DETAIN NON-DIPLOMATIC OFFICIALS OF THE GOVERNMENT 
              OF IRAN.

    (a) In General.--Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the 
President is authorized to take such actions as may be necessary to 
detain--
            (1) non-diplomatic officials of the Government of Iran in 
        the United States; and
            (2) non-diplomatic officials of the Government of Iran in 
        any other country if the government of such country provides 
        authority in advance to the United States to take such actions 
        to detain such officials in such country.
    (b) Sunset.--The authority of subsection (a) shall expire on the 
date on which the United States citizens described in section 1 have 
been released and returned to the United States or the date on which 
the Government of Iran provides to the United States Government a full 
accounting of the whereabouts of Robert Levinson, whichever occurs 
later.
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