Tehran Incitement to Violence Act

Section 3 was restructured from a determination/reporting requirement (Secretary of State and Treasury to report every 180 days for up to 6 years) into a direct sanctions mandate requiring the President to impose sanctions within 180 days of enactment, with a follow-up deadline of not later than 2 years thereafter.

New presidential waiver authority (subsection e) allows the President to waive sanctions on a foreign person if it is in the national security interests of the United States, with a 15-day advance notice to Congress.

New exceptions (subsection h) carve out intelligence activities, compliance with international obligations or law enforcement needs, and importation of goods from the sanctions regime.

The sanctions mechanism changed from referencing existing authorities (Executive Order 13224, Foreign Terrorist Organization designation, GLOMAG, and multiple Iran-specific sanctions statutes) to a new IEEPA-based property blocking regime plus visa inadmissibility and immediate revocation provisions.

New penalty provision (subsection d) subjects violators of the sanctions to criminal penalties under section 206 of IEEPA.

New termination clause (subsection i) provides that the section ceases to be effective 30 days after the President certifies that Iran no longer repeatedly supports international terrorism under existing statutory criteria.

The term 'individuals and entities' was replaced throughout with 'foreign persons,' defined in a new subsection (j) as any individual or entity that is not a United States person, including foreign states.

Multiple findings were softened: 'have charged' became 'have variously described'; direct statements about fatwas were prefixed with 'reportedly'; 'functions as a leader in the IRGC's antisemitic and violent, Islamist extremist indoctrination program' was replaced with 'serves as a leading figure in the IRGC's indoctrination system and is described by analysts as one of the main ideological architects'; and Finding 14 was rewritten to describe statements about blood being 'religiously permissible' rather than a declaration of readiness to implement a fatwa.

New definitions subsection (j) defines 'appropriate congressional committees,' 'foreign person,' 'Government of Iran,' and 'United States person' for purposes of the section.