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EU enhances economic sanctions on luxury and dual use goods against Syria

  • Steptoe & Johnson LLP
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  • European Union, Syria, USA
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  • June 19 2012

On 15 June 2012, the Council of the European Union (Council) approved Council Regulation (EU) No 1122212, enhancing EU sanctions on luxury and dual use goods exported to Syria

Targeting foreign evaders of Iran and Syria sanctions

  • Steptoe & Johnson LLP
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  • Iran, Syria, USA
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  • May 7 2012

On May 1, 2012, President Obama issued Executive Order 13608 "Prohibiting Certain Transactions and Suspending Entry into the United States of Foreign Sanctions Evaders with Respect to Iran and Syria" (Foreign Sanctions Evaders E.O

U.S. hopes GHRAVITY will ground Iranian and Syrian depravity

  • Steptoe & Johnson LLP
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  • Iran, Syria, USA
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  • April 28 2012

President Obama has issued an executive order, “Blocking the Property and Suspending Entry into the United States of Certain Persons With Respect to Grave Human Rights Abuses by the Government of Iran and Syria via Information Technology” (aka “the GHRAVITY E.O.”), that gives the Secretary of the Treasury the power to impose sanctions on entities that help the governments of Iran and Syria use modern technologies to commit human rights abuses

Interpreting sanctions for privacy abuses in Syria, Iran

  • Steptoe & Johnson LLP
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  • Iran, Syria, USA
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  • April 27 2012

On April 22, 2012, President Obama issued an executive order authorizing new sanctions on individuals and entities that operate or provide information technology that facilitates the perpetration of human rights abuses by the Syrian and Iranian governments

OFAC names the Commercial Bank of Syria, the Syrian Lebanese Commercial Bank and Syriatel as specially designated nationals; additional sanctions against Syria expected

  • Steptoe & Johnson LLP
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  • Syria, USA
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  • August 11 2011

On August 10, 2011, the Office of Foreign Assets Control, US Department of the Treasury (OFAC) named the Commercial Bank of Syria, its subsidiary the Syrian Lebanese Commercial Bank, and Syriatel, Syria’s largest mobile phone company, as Specially Designated Nationals (SDNs) under three separate executive orders