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PROVIDING FOR THE REVOCATION OF SYRIA SANCTIONS
Executive Orders
June 30, 2025
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.), the National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1601 et seq.) (NEA), the Syria Accountability and Lebanese Sovereignty Restoration Act of 2003 (Public Law 108-175) (Syria Accountability Act), the Chemical and Biological Weapons Control and Warfare Elimination Act of 1991 (Public Law 102-182, title III) (CBW Act), the Caesar Syria Civilian Protection Act of 2019, as amended (22 U.S.C. 8791 note) (Caesar Act), the Illicit Captagon Trafficking Suppression Act of 2023 (Public Law 118-50, div. P), and section 301 of title 3, United States Code, it is hereby ordered:
Section 1. Background. The United States is committed to supporting a Syria that...
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1) On June 30, 2025, President Trump issued this EO, which “revokes the…six E.O.s that form the foundation of the Syrian Sanctions Program and terminates the national emergency underlying those E.O.s, effective July 1, 2025” (FAQ # 1220). Concurrent with the termination of the EOs that form the basis of the SySR, the EO “expand[s] the scope of the [separate Syria-related] national emergency declared in Executive Order 13894”. That EO formed the basis of the “Syria-related Sanctions Regulations” (31 CFR Part 569, separate from the SySR). OFAC stated that the purpose of this was as follows:
“To maintain sanctions on Bashar al-Assad and certain other destabilizing regional actors, E.O. of June 30, 2025 also expands the scope of the national emergency declared...