030203-FACRL-IA-01
OFFICE OF FOREIGN ASSETS CONTROL
IRANIAN TRANSACTIONS REGULATIONS (31 C.F.R. PART 560)
GUIDANCE ON INFORMATIONAL MATERIALS
SUMMARY
• Except as otherwise authorized by general or specific license, the Iranian Transactions Regulations, 31 C.F.R. Part 560 (the "ITR"), prohibit the exportation, directly or indirectly, from the United States or by a United States person, wherever located, of any goods, technology, or services to Iran or the Government of Iran.
• The importation from any country and the exportation to any country of information and informational materials are exempt from the ITR. ITR § 560.210(c) defines the term information and informational materials to include publications, films, posters, phonographs, microfilms, microfiche, tapes, compact disks, CD ROMS, artworks, and wire feeds.
FACTUAL CONTENT
This guidance was developed in response...
General Note on interpretive Rulings Removed from OFAC’s Index: A substantial number of OFAC’s Interpretive Rulings—many of which serve as the only public statements that OFAC has ever made on certain fundamental interpretive questions with cross-programmatic implications—have been removed from OFAC’s website. With one rare exception, OFAC does not offer statements explaining why it has taken the rulings down, but in the vast majority of cases, the rulings were subsequently rendered either incorrect or confusing as a result of OFAC’s general licensing of conduct that would have been prohibited under the guidance. We include these rulings in the database because of the value they retain even after they have been taken down, but caution against reliance on them as our identification of the reasons why they were removed are necessarily speculative.
As discussed in the "General Background Note on the Chronology...