Imposing Sanctions With Respect to Iran
| Published date | 26 June 2019 |
| Citation | 84 FR 30573 |
| Record Number | 2019-13793 |
| Section | Presidential Documents |
| Court | Executive Office Of The President |
Federal Register, Volume 84 Issue 123 (Wednesday, June 26, 2019)
[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 123 (Wednesday, June 26, 2019)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Pages 30573-30576]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2019-13793]
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Vol. 84
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June 26, 2019
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Executive Order 13876--Imposing Sanctions With Respect to Iran
Presidential Documents
Federal Register / Vol. 84 , No. 123 / Wednesday, June 26, 2019 /
Presidential Documents
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Title 3--
The President
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Executive Order 13876 of June 24, 2019
Imposing Sanctions With Respect to Iran
By the authority vested in me as President by the
Constitution and the laws of the United States of
America, including the International Emergency Economic
Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.) (IEEPA), the
National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1601 et seq.),
section 212(f) of the Immigration and Nationality Act
of 1952 (8 U.S.C. 1182(f)), and section 301 of title 3,
United States Code,
I, DONALD J. TRUMP, President of the United States of
America, in order to take additional steps with respect
to the national emergency declared in Executive Order
12957 of March 15, 1995, in light of the actions of the
Government of Iran and Iranian-backed proxies,
particularly those taken to destabilize the Middle
East, promote international terrorism, and advance
Iran's ballistic missile program, and Iran's
irresponsible and provocative actions in and over
international waters, including the targeting of United
States military assets and civilian vessels, hereby
order:
Section 1. (a) All property and interests in property
that are in the United States, that hereafter come
within the United States, or that are or hereafter come
within the possession or control of any United States
person of the following persons are blocked and may not
be transferred, paid, exported, withdrawn, or otherwise
dealt in:
(i) the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Iranian
Supreme Leader's Office (SLO); or
(ii) any person determined by the Secretary of the Treasury, in
consultation with the Secretary of State:
(A) to be a person appointed by the Supreme Leader of Iran or the SLO to
a position as a state official of Iran, or as the head of any entity
located in Iran or any entity located outside of Iran that is owned or
controlled by one or more entities in Iran;
(B) to be a person appointed to a position as a state official of Iran,
or as the head of any entity located in Iran or any entity located outside
of Iran that is owned or controlled by one or more entities in Iran, by any
person appointed by the Supreme Leader of Iran or the SLO;
(C) to have materially assisted, sponsored, or provided financial,
material, or technological support for, or goods or services to or in
support of any person whose property and interests in property are blocked
pursuant to this section;
(D) to be owned or controlled by, or to have acted or purported to act
for or on behalf of, directly or indirectly any person whose property and
interests in property are blocked pursuant to this section; or
(E) to be a member of the board of directors or a senior executive
officer of any person whose property and interests in property are blocked
pursuant to this section.
(b) The prohibitions in subsection (a) of this
section apply except to the extent provided by
statutes, or in regulations, orders, directives, or
licenses that may be issued pursuant to this order, and
notwithstanding any contract entered into or any
license or permit granted before the date of this
order.
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Sec. 2. (a) The Secretary of the Treasury, in
consultation with the Secretary of State, is hereby
authorized to impose on a foreign financial institution
the sanctions described in subsection (b) of this
section upon determining that the foreign financial
institution has knowingly conducted or facilitated any
significant financial transaction for or on behalf of
any person whose property and interests in property are
blocked pursuant to section 1 of this order.
(b) With respect to any foreign financial
institution determined by the Secretary of the Treasury
in accordance with this section to meet the criteria
set forth in subsection (a) of this section, the
Secretary of the Treasury may prohibit the opening, and
prohibit or impose strict conditions on the
maintaining, in the United States of a correspondent
account or a payable-through account by such foreign
financial institution.
(c) The prohibitions in subsection (b) of this
section apply except to the extent provided by
statutes, or in regulations, orders, directives, or
licenses that may be issued pursuant to this order, and
notwithstanding any contract entered into or any
license or permit granted before the date of this
order.
Sec. 3. I hereby determine that the making of donations
of the types of articles specified in section 203(b)(2)
of IEEPA (50 U.S.C. 1701(b)(2)) by, to, or for the
benefit of any person whose property and interests in
property are blocked pursuant to section 1 of this
order would seriously impair the President's ability to
deal with the national emergency declared in Executive
Order 12957, and I hereby prohibit such donations as
provided by section 1 of this order.
Sec. 4. The prohibitions in section 1 of this order
include:
(a) the making of any contribution or provision of
funds, goods, or services by, to, or for the benefit of
any person whose property and interests in property are
blocked pursuant to this order; and
(b) the receipt of any contribution or provision of
funds, goods, or services from any such person.
Sec. 5. The unrestricted immigrant and nonimmigrant
entry into the United States of aliens determined to
meet one or more of the criteria in subsection 1(a) of
this order would be detrimental to the interests of the
United States, and the entry of such persons into the
United States, as immigrants or nonimmigrants, is
hereby suspended. Such persons shall be treated as
persons covered by section 1 of Proclamation 8693 of
July 24, 2011 (Suspension of Entry of Aliens Subject to
United Nations Security Council Travel Bans and
International Emergency Economic Powers Act Sanctions).
Sec. 6. The Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation
with the Secretary of State, is hereby authorized to
take such actions, including adopting rules and
regulations, to employ all powers granted to the
President by IEEPA as may be necessary to carry out the
purposes of this order, other than the purposes
described in section 5 of this order. The Secretary of
the Treasury may, consistent with applicable law,
redelegate any of these functions within the Department
of the Treasury. All departments and agencies of the
United States shall take all appropriate measures
within their authority to implement this order.
Sec. 7. (a) Any transaction that evades or avoids, has
the purpose of evading or avoiding, causes a violation
of, or attempts to violate any of the prohibitions set
forth in this order is prohibited.
(b) Any conspiracy formed to violate any of the
prohibitions set forth in this order is prohibited.
Sec. 8. For the purposes of this order:
(a) the term ``person'' means an individual or
entity;
(b) the term ``entity'' means a partnership,
association, trust, joint venture, corporation, group,
subgroup, or other organization;
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(c) the term ``foreign financial institution''
means any foreign entity that is engaged in the
business of accepting deposits, making, granting,
transferring, holding, or brokering loans or credits,
or purchasing or selling foreign exchange, securities,
commodity futures or options, or procuring purchasers
and sellers thereof, as principal or agent. The term
includes, but is not limited to, depository
institutions, banks, savings banks, money service
businesses, trust companies, securities brokers and
dealers, commodity futures and options brokers and
dealers, forward contract and foreign exchange
merchants, securities and commodities exchanges,
clearing corporations, investment companies, employee
benefit plans, dealers in precious metals, stones, or
jewels, and holding companies, affiliates, or
subsidiaries of any of the foregoing. The term does not
include the international financial institutions
identified in 22 U.S.C. 262r(c)(2), the International
Fund for Agricultural Development, the North American
Development Bank, or any other international financial
institution so notified by the Secretary of the
Treasury;
(d) the term ``knowingly,'' with respect to
conduct, a circumstance, or a result, means that a
person has actual knowledge, or should have known, of
the conduct, the circumstance, or the result; and
(e) the term ``United States person'' means any
United States citizen, permanent resident alien, entity
organized under the laws of the United States or any
jurisdiction within the United States (including
foreign branches), or any person in the United States.
Sec. 9. For those persons whose property and interests
in property are blocked pursuant to this order who
might have a constitutional presence in the United
States, I find that because of the ability to transfer
funds or other assets instantaneously, prior notice to
such persons of measures to be taken pursuant to this
order would render those measures ineffectual. I
therefore determine that for these measures to be
effective in addressing the national emergency declared
in Executive Order 12957, there need be no prior notice
of a listing or determination made pursuant to section
1 of this order.
Sec. 10. (a) Nothing in this order shall be construed
to impair or otherwise affect:
(i) the authority granted by law to an executive department or agency, or
the head thereof; or
(ii) the functions of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget
relating to budgetary, administrative, or legislative proposals.
(b) This order shall be implemented consistent with
applicable law and subject to the availability of
appropriations.
(c) This order is not intended to, and does not,
create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural,
enforceable at law or in equity by any party against
the United States, its departments, agencies, or
entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any
other person.
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Sec. 11. The measures taken pursuant to this order are
in response to actions of the Government of Iran
occurring after the conclusion of the 1981 Algiers
Accords, and are intended solely as a response to those
later actions.
(Presidential Sig.)
THE WHITE HOUSE,
June 24, 2019.
[FR Doc. 2019-13793
Filed 6-25-19; 11:15 am]
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