U.S. GOVERNMENT PUBLISHING OFFICE

WASHINGTON : 

1 

89–011 2019

116th Congress, 1st Session – – – – – – – – – – – – – House Document 116–45 

ADDITIONAL STEPS TO THE NATIONAL EMERGENCY 

WITH RESPECT TO IRAN 

MESSAGE 

FROM

THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES 

TRANSMITTING

NOTIFICATION OF THE ISSUANCE OF AN EXECUTIVE ORDER WITH 

RESPECT TO IRAN THAT TAKES ADDITIONAL STEPS WITH RESPECT TO THE NATIONAL EMERGENCY DECLARED IN EXECUTIVE ORDER 12957 OF MARCH 15, 1995, PURSUANT TO 50 U.S.C. 

1703(b); PUBLIC LAW 95–223 SEC. 204(b); (91 Stat. 1627) 

JUNE 24, 2019.—Message and accompanying papers referred to the 

Committee on Foreign Affairs and ordered to be printed 


SSpencer on DSKBBXCHB2PROD with REPORTSE:\Seals\Congress.#13

SSpencer on DSKBBXCHB2PROD with REPORTS
(1) 

To the Congress of the United States: 

Pursuant to the International Emergency Economic Powers Act 

(50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.) (IEEPA), I hereby report that I have issued 

an Executive Order with respect to Iran that takes additional steps 

with respect to the national emergency declared in Executive Order 

12957 of March 15, 1995. 

I am enclosing a copy of the order I have issued. 

DONALD J. TRUMP. 

THE WHITE HOUSE, June 24, 2019. 


SSpencer on DSKBBXCHB2PROD with REPORTS

SSpencer on DSKBBXCHB2PROD with REPORTS
(3) 

EXECUTIVE ORDER

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 Iranianbacked 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 


SSpencer on DSKBBXCHB2PROD with REPORTS
4 

(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. 

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 


SSpencer on DSKBBXCHB2PROD with REPORTS
5 

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; 

(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: 


SSpencer on DSKBBXCHB2PROD with REPORTS
6 

(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. 

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. 

DONALD J. TRUMP. 

THE WHITE HOUSE, June 24, 2019. 

Æ 


SSpencer on DSKBBXCHB2PROD with REPORTS