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LICENSE No. IA-2021-376383-1
IRANIAN TRANSACTIONS AND SANCTIONS REGULATIONS
LICENSE
(Issued under the authority of one or more of 22 U.S.C. §§ 2349aa-9, 8501-51, 8701-85, 50 U.S.C. §§ 1601-51, 1701-06, Executive Orders 12957, 12959, 13059, 13599, and 13846, and 31 C.F.R. Parts 501 and 560.)
To: Manassas Mosque
c/o The Law Offices of Saeid B. Amini
730 24th Street, NW Suite One
Washington, DC 20037
ATTN: Saeid B. Amini, Esq.
1. Based upon the request dated July 31, 2021 and supplemental correspondence dated August 8, 2021 to the Office of Foreign Assets Control (the “Application”), the transactions described herein are hereby authorized.
2. This License is subject to the condition, among others, that the Licensee(s) comply with its terms and with all regulations, rulings, orders, and instructions...
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1) BACKGROUND
The tiles at issue, and circumstances surrounding the license, were described by Council on American-Islamic Relations as follows, with a photo of some of the tiles at issue:
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today called on the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and U.S. Department of the Treasury to release almost 750 pounds of decorative tiles with verses from the Quran destined for a Virginia mosque that officials are now threatening to destroy.
Those tiles are to be used to decorate the “mihrab,” a niche indicating the direction of prayer, of the Manassas Mosque in Manassas, Va. They were a gift from a mosque in Iran to the Virginia mosque and include verses from the Quran, Islam’s revealed text, such as: “Indeed, We see you [O Prophet Muhammad] turning...