Whereas, on November 15, 2019, popular protests against the Iranian regime began and rapidly spread to at least 21 cities throughout the country, in the most significant antigovernment protests in Iran since June 2009; Whereas the protests began in response to an announced increase on the price of fuel and protesters have expressed numerous economic grievances, while also calling for the structural reform of the political system and condemning current and former Iranian leaders; Whereas reports indicate that Iranian security forces have used lethal force in arresting more than 7,000 people and killed at least 208 in connection with the protests; Whereas reports indicate that Iranian Government authorities have, in many instances, refused to return victims’ bodies to their families and that security forces have removed bodies from morgues and transferred them to unknown locations; Whereas, on November 16, 2019, Iranian authorities began implementing a near-total shutdown of internet services, stopping nearly all means of online communications for people inside Iran, to preclude the sharing of images and videos of deadly violence being used by security forces; Whereas section 103(b)(2)(B) of the Comprehensive Iran Sanctions, Accountability, and Divestment Act of 2010 ( 22 U.S.C. 8512(b)(2)(B) ) authorizes licensing services relating to personal communications over the internet, to improve the ability of the Iranian people to speak freely; Whereas, on November 16, 2019, Iran’s Interior Minister Abdolreza Rahmani Fazli said that the Iranian regime will no longer show tolerance and self-control toward the protesters; Whereas, on November 17, 2019, Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei called the demonstrators villains galvanized by foreign enemies and domestic insurgents and ordered Iranian security services to implement their duties to end the protests