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Executive Order 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
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.), the Iran Sanctions Act of 1996 (Public Law 104-172) (50 U.S.C. 1701 note), as amended (ISA), the Comprehensive Iran Sanctions, Accountability, and Divestment Act of 2010 (Public Law 111-195) (22 U.S.C. 8501 et seq.), as amended (CISADA), the Iran Threat Reduction and Syria Human Rights Act of 2012 (Public Law 112-158) (ITRSHRA), section 212(f) of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952, as amended (8 U.S.C. 1182(f)), and section 301 of title 3, United...
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EO 13628 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 purpose. 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...