No Impunity for Iranian Aggression at Sea Act of 2016

S.2984
Introduced: 
May 25, 2016
114
Second
May 25, 2016
Referred to Senate (sub)committee

This bill would facilitate the application of new sanctions on Iran in relation to the Iranian navy’s boarding of 2 U.S. naval vessels and capture of their crews on 1/12/16. Specifically, it would require the president to report to Congress within 2 mos. with a determination of whether or not the incident constituted a violation of the Geneva Convention or other international laws, and whether or not the $1.7 b. paid to Iran on 1/17/16 was in exchange for the U.S. seamen captured on 1/12/16, or for the 5 U.S. citizens released by Iran on 1/16/16. (Republican leaders at the time alleged that the payment was some type of ransom, but the Obama administration insisted that the timing of the payment was coincidental: long-frozen Iranian money was merely being returned as a result of unrelated legal claims.) Thirty days after submitting the initial report, the president would be directed to submit a list of Iranian persons complicit in any violations of the Geneva Convention or other international laws, and to impose sanctions on them.

1 cosponsor (1R).

See also: similar bill H.R. 5333 of 5/25/16.

Last major action: 5/25/16 referred to Senate Comm. on Foreign Relations.

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