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PUBLIC LAW 106-386 —OCT. 28, 2000 114 STAT. 1543 sanctions, payment shall be made from funds or accounts subject to sanctions as of April 18, 2000, or from blocked assets of the Government of Cuba. (2) JUDGMENTS AGAINST IRAN.—For purposes of funding payments under subsection (a) in the case of judgments against Iran, the Secretary of the Treasury shall make such payments from amounts paid and liquidated from— (A) rental proceeds accrued on the date of the enactment of this Act from Iranian diplomatic and consular property located in the United States; and (B) funds not otherwise made available in an amount not to exceed the total of the amount in the Iran Foreign Military Sales Program account within the Foreign Military Sales Fund on the date of the enactment of this Act. (c) SUBROGATION.— Upon payment under subsection (a) with respect to payments in connection with a Foreign Military Sales Program account, the United States shall be fully subrogated, to the extent of the payments, to all rights of the person paid under that subsection against the debtor foreign state. The President shall pursue these subrogated rights as claims or offsets of the United States in appropriate ways, including any negotiation process which precedes the normalization of relations between the foreign state designated as a state sponsor of terrorism and the United States, except that no funds shall be paid to Iran, or released to Iran, from property blocked under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act or from the Foreign Military Sales Fund, until such subrogated claims have been dealt with to the satisfaction of the United States. (d) SENSE OF THE CONGRESS. —It is the sense of the Congress that the President should not normalize relations between the United States and Iran until the claims subrogated have been dealt with to the satisfaction of the United States. (e) REAFFIRMATION OF AUTHORITY.— Congress reaffirms the President's statutory authority to manage and, where appropriate and consistent with the national interest, vest foreign assets located in the United States for the purposes, among other things, of assisting and, where appropriate, making payments to victims of terrorism. (f) AMENDMENTS.— (1) Section 1610(f) of title 28, United States Code, is amended— (A) in paragraphs (2)(A) and (2)(B)(ii), by striking "shall" each place it appears and inserting "should make every effort to"; and (B) by adding at the end the following new paragraph: "(3) WAIVER. — The President may waive any provision of paragraph (1) in the interest of national security.". (2) Subsections (b) and (d) of section 117 of the Treasury Department Appropriations Act, 1999 (as contained in section 101(h) of 28 USC 1606, Public Law 105-277) are repealed, leio note. SEC. 2003. AID FOR VICTIMS OF TERRORISM. (a) MEETING THE NEEDS OF VICTIMS OF TERRORISM OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES. — (1) IN GENERAL. — Section 1404B(a) of the Victims of Crime Act of 1984 (42 U.S.C. 10603b(a)) is amended as follows: " (a) VICTIMS OF ACTS OF TERRORISM OUTSIDE UNITED STATES.—