Imposing Sanctions With Respect to Iran, 30573-30576 [2019-13793]

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[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

Wednesday,

No. 123

June 26, 2019

Part V





The President





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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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