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US sanctions on Iran: 2012 year in review

  • Steptoe & Johnson LLP
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  • Iran, USA
  • -
  • February 25 2013

The United States first imposed sanctions against Iran in 1979, and established the current Iran sanctions framework in the mid-1990s with the

Congress sets stage for expanded sanctions against Iran under the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2013

  • Steptoe & Johnson LLP
  • -
  • Iran, USA
  • -
  • January 3 2013

On January 2, 2013, President Obama signed the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2013 (NDAA 2013) (H.R. 4310) expanding US

Foreign subsidiaries of US corporations now fully subject to Iranian sanctions

  • Steptoe & Johnson LLP
  • -
  • Iran, USA
  • -
  • October 12 2012

On October 9, 2012, the President issued a new Executive Order, EO 13628, “Authorizing the Implementation of Certain Sanctions Set Forth in the Iran Threat Reduction and Syria Human Rights Act of 2012 and Additional Sanctions with Respect to Iran.”

President and Congress take further steps to expand Iran sanctions with new legislation and executive order

  • Steptoe & Johnson LLP
  • -
  • Iran, USA
  • -
  • August 14 2012

The U.S. Congress and President Obama took action recently to further tighten sanctions against Iran

Standard Chartered Bank accused of prohibited dealings with Iran

  • Steptoe & Johnson LLP
  • -
  • Iran, USA
  • -
  • August 9 2012

Standard Chartered Bank (SCB), a wholly owned subsidiary of Standard Chartered plc, a British bank, faces the possible loss of its New York banking license following accusations by the New York State Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) that the bank hid 60,000 transactions involving Iran over the course of almost a decade

United States imposes additional sanctions against Iran, targets Iranian entities circumventing international sanctions

  • Steptoe & Johnson LLP
  • -
  • Iran, USA
  • -
  • July 19 2012

On July 12, 2012, the US Department of the Treasury, Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), announced the designation of more than 50 foreign entities involved in the Iranian shipping, procurement, petroleum, and financial networks

Targeting foreign evaders of Iran and Syria sanctions

  • Steptoe & Johnson LLP
  • -
  • Iran, Syria, USA
  • -
  • 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
  • -
  • Iran, Syria, USA
  • -
  • 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
  • -
  • Iran, Syria, USA
  • -
  • 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

New sanctions target companies providing information technologies to Syria and Iran for perpetration of human rights abuses

  • Steptoe & Johnson LLP
  • -
  • Iran, Syria, USA
  • -
  • April 26 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

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