Ed. Note: if you’re new to TURBOFAC, please take note that the text string filtration function generally shouldn’t be used for terms such as “ordinarily resident,” “causing” or “new debt”. For research on the meaning of words and phrases such as those, i.e. terms central to the key legal issues in sanctions law that appear on a cross-programmatic basis, you’re typically better off locating and checking the appropriate box in the “Key Legal Issues” search category, which will limit the results to those that have been manually assessed as being relevant for the interpretation of the terms at issue.
Try typing your search term (“ordinarily resident,” “new debt,” or something else) in the “Find a Search Filter” box at the top of the page, and the corresponding “Key Legal Issues” check box will pop up instantly, if one exists. Once you check the box (e.g. “new debt,” with ~55 results), you can always use the text string filtration function to further refine your search (e.g. by typing “invoice” and narrowing the ~55 results to ~10).
Note in addition that the same applies to text string searches such as “14071” (if you’re looking for items related to EO 14071). By typing “14071” in the “Find a Search Filter” field up top, you will be able to instantly narrow the results down to items manually assessed as relating to EO 14071. Ditto terms such as “515.204” or “Iran General License G” (try the “Discrete Legal Provision” search category).
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Please click "Apply Text String Filters" again after clicking the "Close" button immediately below.
1) Compare Case No. IA-2013-302015-1; License No. IA-2013-302015-1, in which OFAC licenses "all transactions necessary to conduct cultural and academic field research on the influence of Information Communication Technologies (“ICTs”) on the economic, cultural, social, political, and religious spheres of life in Iran, including but not limited to, conducting surveys and interviews of activists and ordinary Iranians on their use of ICT..." That case makes clear that OFAC does not regard field research in Iran to constitute a transaction ordinarily incident to publishing, for the purposes of 560.538, even when the field research is done with an eye toward eventual publication. Compare also Case No. IA-2020-368922-1, in which OFAC says that a U.S. person can "sit on the editorial board of two scientific journals being published in Iran" under the authority of the publishing GL at 560.538....