REPORT RELATIVE TO 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--PM 15; Congressional Record Vol. 165, No. 76
(Senate - May 08, 2019)
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REPORT RELATIVE TO 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--PM 15
The PRESIDING OFFICER laid before the Senate the following message
from the President of the United States, together with an accompanying
report; which was referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and
Urban Affairs:
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 haveissued an
Executive Order (the ``order'') with respect to Iran that takes
additional steps with respect to the national emergency declared in
Executive Order 12957 of March 15, 1995, and to supplement the
authorities provided in the Iran Freedom and Counter-Proliferation Act
of 2012 (subtitle D of title XII of Public Law 112-239).
The order takes steps to deny Iran revenue, including revenue derived
from the export of products from Iran's iron, steel, aluminum, and
copper sectors, that may be used to provide funding and support for the
proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, terrorist groups and
networks, campaigns of regional aggression, and military expansion.
The order blocks the property and interests in property of persons
determined by the Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation with the
Secretary of State:
to be operating in the iron, steel, aluminum, or copper
sector of Iran, or to be a person that owns, controls, or operates an
entity that is part of the iron, steel, aluminum, or copper sector of
Iran;
to have knowingly engaged, on or after the date of the
order, in a significant transaction for the sale, supply, or transfer
to Iran of significant goods or services used in connection with the
iron, steel, aluminum, or copper sectors of Iran;
to have knowingly engaged, on or after the date of the
order, in a significant transaction for the purchase, acquisition,
sale, transport, or marketing of iron, iron products, aluminum,
aluminum products, steel, steel products, copper, or copper products
from Iran;
to have materially assisted, sponsored, or provided
financial, material, or technological support for, or goods or services
in support of, any person whose property and interests in property are
blocked pursuant to the order; or
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 the order.
The order also authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury, in
consultation with the Secretary of State, to impose correspondent and
payable-through account-related sanctions on a foreign financial
institution upon determining the foreign financial institution has, on
or after the date of the order, knowingly conducted or facilitated a
significant financial transaction:
for the sale, supply, or transfer to Iran of significant
goods or services used in connection with the iron, steel, aluminum, or
copper sectors of Iran;
for the purchase, acquisition, sale, transport, or marketing
of iron, iron products, aluminum, aluminum products, steel, steel
products, copper, or copper products from Iran; or
for or on behalf of any persons whose property and interests
in property are blocked pursuant to the order.
I have delegated to the Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation
with the Secretary of State, the authority to take such actions,
including adopting rules and regulations, to employ all powers granted
to the President by IEEPA as may be necessary to implement the order.
I am enclosing a copy of the order I have issued.
Donald J. Trump.
The White House, May 8, 2019.
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