,i  #aadth ,,congress  #ast ,session    
,h4 ,r4 #cbei  ,,in ,,the ,,house ,,of  
,,representatives  ,july #bh1 #bjae ,mr4
 ,rohrabacher introduced the following  
bill2 which was referred to the         
,committee on ,foreign ,affairs  ,a     
,,bill  ,to grant authority to the      
,president to detain non-diplomatic     
officials of the ,government of ,iran in
 the ,united ,states and non-diplomatic 
officials of the ,government of ,iran in
 certain other countries until all      
,united ,states citizens held by the    
,government of ,iran are released and   
returned to the ,united ,states1 and for
 other purposes4  #a4 ,congressional    
finding ,congress finds that the        
,government of ,iran is unjustly holding
 at least three ,united ,states         
citizens1 ,jason ,rezaian1 ,saeed       
,abedini1 and ,amir ,hekmati1 and       
possibly ,robert ,levinson1 as hostages4
  #b4 ,authority to detain              
non-diplomatic officials of the         
,government of ,iran  7a7 ,in general   

,notwithstanding any other provision of 
law1 the ,president is authorized to    
take such actions as may be necessary to
 detain--  7#a7 non-diplomatic officials
 of the ,government of ,iran in the     
,united ,states2 and  7#b7              
non-diplomatic officials of the         
,government of ,iran in any other       
country if the government of such       
country provides authority in advance to
 the ,united ,states to take such       
actions to detain such officials in such
 country4  7b7 ,sunset ,the authority of
 subsection 7a7 shall expire on the date
 on which the ,united ,states citizens  
described in section #a have been       
released and returned to the ,united    
,states or the date on which the        
,government of ,iran provides to the    
,united ,states ,government a full      
accounting of the whereabouts of ,robert
 ,levinson1 whichever occurs later4