S.Amdt. 440

SA 440. Mr. COTTON submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by
him to the bill S. 2226, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year
2024 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military
construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy,
to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for
other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

At the end of subtitle B of title XII, add the following:

SEC. 1225. PROHIBITION ON PROVISION OF FUNDS TO IRAN.

None of the amounts authorized to be appropriated by this
Act or otherwise made available to the Department of Defense
may be made available, directly or indirectly, to--
(1) the Government of Iran;
(2) any person owned or controlled by the Government of
Iran;
(3) any person identified on the list of specially
designated nationals and blocked persons maintained by the
Office of Foreign Assets Control of the Department of the
Treasury, the property and interests in property of which are
blocked pursuant to the International Emergency Economic
Powers Act (Public Law 95-223; 91 Stat. 1625);
(4) any person owned or controlled by a person described in
paragraph (3); or
(5) the Badr organization, Saraya Khorasani, or Kata'ib al-
Imam Ali.
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