Sec. 305. Sanctions with respect to foreign persons that conduct or facilitate significant transactions related to the purchase or sale of Iranian digital currency or maintain significant amounts in Iranian digital currency. Sec. 306. Report on progress of Government of Iran in creating a sovereign cryptocurrency. I Strengthening existing sanctions with respect to Iran to account for all sanctionable activity, including human rights abuses 101. Findings Congress finds the following: (1) On November 5, 2018, the Secretary of the Treasury for the first time sanctioned Iranian banks for having materially assisted, sponsored, or provided financial, material, or technological support for, or goods or services to or in support of the human rights abuses of the Government of Iran, including— (A) Ghavamin Bank, for providing services to the Law Enforcement Forces of Iran, which had been designated for complicity in serious human rights abuses in Iran, including operating detention centers where detained protestors were deprived of basic needs such as medical care