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Executive Order 13590 of November 20, 2011
Authorizing the Imposition of Certain Sanctions With Respect to the Provision of Goods, Services, Technology, or Support for Iran’s Energy and Petrochemical Sectors
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.) (IEEPA), the National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1601 et seq.), and section 301 of title 3, United States Code, and in order to take additional steps with respect to the national emergency declared in Executive Order 12957 of March 15, 1995,
I, BARACK OBAMA, President of the United States of America, hereby order:
Section 1. The Secretary of State, in consultation with the Secretary of the Treasury, the Secretary of Commerce, and the United States Trade Representative, and with the President of the Export-Import...
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EO 13590 is one of five Iran secondary sanctions related EOs issued between 2011 and 2013 that were either revoked entirely or substantially amended pursuant to the JCPOA in 2016, and of which the substance of the revoked sanctions was reimposed by Executive Order 13846 of August 6, 2018.[1]
The revoked EOs no longer have legal effect, but they can be somewhat useful for interpretive purposes. Executive Order 13846 of August 6, 2018 is extremely unruly, and from the text of it, it is not evident which sanctions are implementations of secondary sanctions statutes, and which are based solely on the President's authority under IEEPA. It is also not clear from the text of EO 13846 which of the re-imposed sanctions were actually in...