House Committee Advances China, Iran Sanctions Bills
The House Foreign Affairs Committee last week advanced two sanctions-related bills, one involving China and another dealing with Iran.
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One bill, introduced earlier this month, could lead to new sanctions against people or entities tied to “forced organ harvesting” in China (see 2306160009). Rep. Michael McCaul of Texas, the committee’s top Republican, said there is “growing evidence” the Chinese government is harvesting organs from religious and ethnic minorities “around the world,” adding that he’s “glad this important bill that empowers the Biden administration to identify and punish [Chinese Communist Party] members involved in such heinous acts has passed out of committee.”
Another bill would eliminate the 2026 sunset clause in the Iran Sanctions Act of 1996. The sanctions would remain “until Iran meets specified behavior-based criteria.” McCaul said the legislation “takes the long overdue step of striking the arbitrary sunset from the Iran Sanctions Act, so that sanctions against the regime will only be lifted if Iran stops its threatening behavior. Iran can’t run out the clock on U.S. law.”