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HR 1422 · 119th Congress · HouseIn committee

Enhanced Iran Sanctions Act of 2025

In plain language: Foreign companies, corporate executives, and their benefiting family members will face frozen U.S. assets and U.S. travel bans if they refine, transport, or sell Iranian oil and petrochemical products. The bill also authorizes cash bounties for whistleblowers and informants who help identify people sneaking around Iranian oil sanctions. Humanitarian trade—including shipments of food, medicine, and medical devices—as well as essential supplies to keep ship crews safe are protected from these restrictions.

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Fiscal magnitudeCBO cost estimate published (H.R. 1422, Enhanced Iran Sanctions Act of 2025, 2025-05-22); dollar figure pending review extraction — see receipt
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Issues

What this bill touches.

Aid & alliances+20Levels of legal immigration−25

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Who it affects

Who it helps · who it burdens.

Who it helps

  • Informants reporting Iranian sanctions evasionEligible to receive monetary rewards from the State Department's Rewards for Justice program for providing actionable information that identifies individuals or entities attempting to evade U.S. sanctions on Iranian oil transactions under Section 3.provisional

Who it burdens

  • Foreign entities and individuals involved in the Iranian petroleum tradeSubject to asset freezes and financial transaction blocking under IEEPA, as well as U.S. visa denials, admission bans, and visa revocations under Section 4(a)–(b).provisional
  • Corporate officers, subsidiaries, and family members of sanctioned foreign oil entitiesSubject to U.S. property blocking, visa revocations, and travel bans if they lead, manage, are owned by, or demonstrably benefit from entities engaged in significant Iranian oil and petrochemical transactions under Section 4(a)(2)–(4) and Section 4(b).provisional

Who opposes it

  • Iranian petroleum and petrochemical sectorsThe text directly seeks to cut off financial resources and transactions derived from Iran's petroleum and petrochemical sectors through asset freezes and global trade penalties under Section 2 and Section 4(a)–(b).provisional

Dollar-level funding (FEC sector totals) is coming in a later phase.

What it does

The provisions, in plain language.

  1. Authorizes the State Department to offer rewards for information that identifies foreign individuals or companies attempting to evade U.S. sanctions on Iranian oil and petrochemical transactions.

    Sec. 3provisional
  2. Authorizes the President to freeze the U.S. property and financial assets of foreign persons, corporate officers, subsidiaries, or benefiting family members involved in Iranian petroleum transactions.

    Sec. 4(a)–(b)(1)provisional
  3. Denies U.S. visas and entry to foreign individuals targeted by these Iranian petroleum sanctions and revokes any valid visas they currently hold.

    Sec. 4(a)–(b)(2)provisional
  4. Exempts humanitarian supplies (including food and medicine), authorized intelligence activities, United Nations diplomatic travel, and emergency vessel safety provisions from sanctions.

    Sec. 4(c)provisional
  5. Allows the President to waive sanctions against a foreign person for up to 180 days at a time by certifying that the waiver serves U.S. national interests.

    Sec. 4(d)provisional
  6. Ends the sanctions requirement if the President certifies that Iran has stopped supporting terrorism and has verifiably dismantled its weapons of mass destruction and missile programs.

    Sec. 4(f)provisional

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Timeline

How it moved.

  1. Mar 17, 2026Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
  2. Mar 16, 2026The title of the measure was amended. Agreed to without objection.
  3. Mar 16, 2026Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
  4. Mar 16, 2026On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H2500-2501)
  5. Mar 16, 2026Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H2500-2501)
  6. Apr 9, 2025Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by Voice Vote.
  7. Feb 18, 2025Introduced in House
  8. Feb 18, 2025Introduced in House

The original text

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Sources & provenance

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