Enhanced Iran Sanctions Act of 2025

The bill requires the President to impose sanctions on certain foreign people and entities that help process, export, or sell oil, gas, liquefied natural gas, or other petrochemical products from Iran. This includes banks, insurance companies, shipping flag registries, and pipeline or LNG facility operators, as well as their key officers, certain family members, and related companies that they own or control. People who knowingly take part in significant transactions linked to Iran’s energy sector can be targeted. Sanctions include freezing any of the targeted person’s property or interests in property that are in the United States or controlled by a U.S. person. Targeted non‑U.S. individuals also become ineligible to get U.S. visas, enter the country, or stay in the United States, and any existing visas must be revoked. The bill clarifies that it does not itself require sanctions on the import of goods into the United States. There are several exceptions. Humanitarian trade and aid, such as food, agricultural products, medicine, and medical devices, are excluded from these sanctions, as are certain activities needed for law enforcement, U.S. treaty obligations (such as at the United Nations), and the safety of ships and crews. The President may waive sanctions for up to 180 days at a time if doing so is certified as vital to U.S. national interests and explained to Congress, with a plan to phase out the waiver. The bill directs the Secretary of State to create an Interagency Working Group on Iranian Sanctions, bringing together officials from State, Treasury, Justice, and other agencies. This group is to work with partner countries in a multilateral contact group that shares information about sanctions rules, newly designated entities, and sanctions evasion methods, and coordinates new steps relating to Iran’s nuclear and missile activities and support for terrorism. The bill also amends existing law to allow rewards for private individuals who help identify people covered by these sanctions or who try to evade them using proceeds from intercepted Iranian energy sales.