Ed. Note: if you’re new to TURBOFAC, please take note that the text string filtration function generally shouldn’t be used for terms such as “ordinarily resident,” “causing” or “new debt”. For research on the meaning of words and phrases such as those, i.e. terms central to the key legal issues in sanctions law that appear on a cross-programmatic basis, you’re typically better off locating and checking the appropriate box in the “Key Legal Issues” search category, which will limit the results to those that have been manually assessed as being relevant for the interpretation of the terms at issue.
Try typing your search term (“ordinarily resident,” “new debt,” or something else) in the “Find a Search Filter” box at the top of the page, and the corresponding “Key Legal Issues” check box will pop up instantly, if one exists. Once you check the box (e.g. “new debt,” with ~55 results), you can always use the text string filtration function to further refine your search (e.g. by typing “invoice” and narrowing the ~55 results to ~10).
Note in addition that the same applies to text string searches such as “14071” (if you’re looking for items related to EO 14071). By typing “14071” in the “Find a Search Filter” field up top, you will be able to instantly narrow the results down to items manually assessed as relating to EO 14071. Ditto terms such as “515.204” or “Iran General License G” (try the “Discrete Legal Provision” search category).
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1) The two licenses at issue unblock funds that were blocked by Stripe, acting as an intermediary bank processing an Iran-related transaction. The underlying facts (see native PDF) appear to be as follows: an Australian citizen and son of a person imprisoned at an SDN Iranian prison raised funds online to help pay Iranian “court costs” to help free the prisoner. Stripe was the payment processor for the online donation site. The USD amounts seen in the two licenses represent the $150 and $100 AUD seen on p. 6 of the native .pdf file.
The blocked amounts at issue here were practically de minimis, but the unblocking licenses serve as a rare example of OFAC unblocking funds in which a blocked person has an “interest”, where such unblocking is not otherwise envisaged by a written licensing policy (see...