- agent
includes an entity established by a person for purposes of conducting transactions on behalf of the person in order to conceal the identity of the person.
- agricultural commodity
has the meaning given that term in section 5602 of title 7.
- appropriate congressional committees
means—
- assets
refers to public monies and includes any pension, retirement, annuity, or endowment fund, or similar instrument, that is controlled by a State or local government.
- Commerce Control List
means the list maintained pursuant to part 774 of the Export Administration Regulations (or any corresponding similar regulation or ruling).
- energy sector of Iran
refers to activities to develop petroleum or natural gas resources or nuclear power in Iran.
- executive agency
has the meaning given that term in section 133 of title 41.
- Export Administration Regulations
means subchapter C of chapter VII of title 15, Code of Federal Regulations (or any corresponding similar regulation or ruling).
- family member
means, with respect to an individual, a spouse, child, parent, sibling, grandchild, or grandparent of the individual.
- financial institution
means a financial institution specified in subparagraph (A), (B), (C), (D), (E), (F), (G), (H), (I), (J), (K), (M), (N), (R), or (Z) of section 5312(a)(2) of title 31.
- foreign financial institution
has the meaning of that term as determined by the Secretary of the Treasury pursuant to section 8513(i) of this title.
- foreign person
means any individual or entity that is not a United States person.
- good
means any article, natural or manmade substance, material, supply or manufactured product, including inspection and test equipment, and excluding technical data.
- government
includes any agency or instrumentality of a government.
- intermediary
means a person that receives a good, service, or technology while the good, service, or technology is in transit to the end-user of the good, service, or technology.
- International Traffic in Arms Regulations
means subchapter M of chapter I of title 22, Code of Federal Regulations (or any corresponding similar regulation or ruling).
- investment
includes—
- Iran
includes the Government of Iran and any agency or instrumentality of Iran.
- Iranian end-user
means an end-user that is the Government of Iran or a person in, or an agency or instrumentality of, Iran.
- Iranian financial institution
means—
- Iranian intermediary
means an intermediary that is the Government of Iran or a person in, or an agency or instrumentality of, Iran.
- medical device
has the meaning given the term “device” in section 321 of title 21.
- medicine
has the meaning given the term “drug” in section 321 of title 21.
- money laundering
means the movement of illicit cash or cash equivalent proceeds into, out of, or through a country, or into, out of, or through a financial institution.
- NIOC
means the National Iranian Oil Company.
- NITC
means the National Iranian Tanker Company.
- person
means—
- sensitive technology
means hardware, software, telecommunications equipment, or any other technology, that the President determines is to be used specifically—
- State
means each of the several States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, American Samoa, Guam, the United States Virgin Islands, and any other territory or possession of the United States.
- State or local government
includes—
- state sponsor of terrorism
means any country the government of which the Secretary of State has determined has repeatedly provided support for acts of international terrorism pursuant to—
- United States financial institution
means a financial institution (as defined in section 14 of the Iran Sanctions Act of 1996 (Public Law 104–172;
- United States Munitions List
means the list maintained pursuant to part 121 of the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (or any corresponding similar regulation or ruling).
- United States person
means—