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Iran Sanctions
Executive Order 13224: Sanctioning Terrorism Supporting Entities
Executive Order 13324 (September 23, 2001) authorizes the President to freeze the assets of and
bar U.S. transactions with entities determined to be supporting international terrorism. This order,
issued two weeks after the September 11, 2001, attacks on the United States, under the authority
of the IEEPA, the National Emergencies Act, the U.N. Participation Act of 1945, and Section 301
of the U.S. Code, was intended to primarily target Al Qaeda-related entities. However, it has
increasingly been applied to Iranian entities. Such Iran-related entities named and sanctioned
under this order are in Table 6, which also contains the names of Iranian entities sanctioned under
other orders and under United Nations resolutions.
Among recent Iran-related designations under this order, on July 28, 2011, the Treasury
Department designated six Iran-based members of Al Qaeda under this order for allegedly serving
as financiers for Al Qaeda. On October 12, 2011, the Treasury Department designated Mahan Air,
an airline operating in Iran and the Persian Gulf region, under this order, for allegedly helping the
Qods Force (the arm of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard that supports pro-Iranian movements abroad)
ship weapons and other gear. On March 27, 2012, the Treasury Department designated five
Iranian entities and one Nigerian entity for allegedly attempting to ship Iranian weapons to
Gambia and to Syria.
Proliferation-Related U.S. Sanctions
Iran is prevented from receiving advanced technology from the United States under relevant and
Iran-specific anti-proliferation laws 31 and by Executive Order 13382 (June 28, 2005). Some of
these laws and executive measures seek to penalize foreign firms and countries that provide
equipment to Iran’s WMD programs.
Iran-Iraq Arms Nonproliferation Act
The Iran-Iraq Arms Nonproliferation Act (P.L. 102-484) imposes a number of sanctions on
foreign entities that supply Iran with WMD technology or “destabilizing numbers and types of
conventional weapons.” Sanctions imposed on violating entities include a ban, for two years, on
U.S. government procurement from that entity, and a two-year ban on licensing U.S. exports to
that entity. A sanction to ban imports to the United States from the entity is authorized.
If the violator is determined to be a foreign country, sanctions to be imposed are a one-year ban
on U.S. assistance to that country; a one-year requirement that the United States vote against
international lending to it; a one-year suspension of U.S. co-production agreements with the
country; a one-year suspension of technical exchanges with the country in military or dual use
technology; and a one-year ban on sales of U.S. arms to the country. The President is also
authorized to deny the country most-favored-nation trade status; and to impose a ban on U.S.
trade with the country.
31 Such laws include the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 and the Energy Policy Act of 2005 (P.L. 109-58).
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