House Passes Another Set of Iran-Related Measures Following Attack on Israel by Jackson Richman – US Politics News

The House of Representatives passed on April 16 its second batch of measures to combat the Iranian threat following Tehran’s unprecedented attack on Israel over the weekend.
The second round consisted of 10 measures – eight bills and two resolutions.
The Holding Iranian Leaders Accountable Act of 2023, introduced by Rep. French Hill (R-Ark.), passed 419-4. Reps. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.), Cori Bush (D-Mo.) and Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) voted against it.
The measure would “require the secretary of the Treasury to report on financial institutions’ involvement with officials of the Iranian government, and for other purposes.”
“Iran has developed covert methods for accessing the international financial system and pursuing its malign activities, including misusing banks and exchange houses, operating procurement networks that utilize front or shell companies, exploiting commercial shipping, and masking illicit transactions using senior officials, including those at the Central Bank of Iran (CBI),” said the Treasury Department upon designating the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a terrorist group in 2019….