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[House Document 116-45]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]

116th Congress, 1st Session - - - - - - - - - - House Document 116-45
 
    ADDITIONAL STEPS TO THE NATIONAL EMERGENCY WITH RESPECT TO IRAN

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                                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)

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    June 24, 2019.--Message and accompanying papers referred to the 
         Committee on Foreign Affairs and ordered to be printed

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                     U.S. GOVERNMENT PUBLISHING OFFICE 
		 
89-011                    WASHINGTON : 2019                 

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.

                            Executive Order

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                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.
    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;
    (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.
    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.

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