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Executive Order: Blocking Property of Certain Persons Who Threaten
Stabilization Efforts in Iraq
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For Immediate Release Office of the Press Secretary July 17, 2007

Executive Order: Blocking Property of Certain Persons Who Threaten
Stabilization Efforts in Iraq

˙˙White House News

˙˙˙˙˙ Message to the Congress of the United States Regarding International
Emergency Economic Powers Act

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, as amended (50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.)(IEEPA), the
National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1601 et seq.)(NEA), and section 301 of
title 3, United States Code,

I, GEORGE W. BUSH, President of the United States of America, find that,
due to the unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and
foreign policy of the United States posed by acts of violence threatening
the peace and stability of Iraq and undermining efforts to promote economic
reconstruction and political reform in Iraq and to provide humanitarian
assistance to the Iraqi people, it is in the interests of the United States
to take additional steps with respect to the national emergency declared in
Executive Order 13303 of May 22, 2003, and expanded in Executive Order
13315 of August 28, 2003, and relied upon for additional steps taken in
Executive Order 13350 of July 29, 2004, and Executive Order 13364 of
November 29, 2004. I hereby order:

Section 1. (a) Except to the extent provided in section 203(b)(1), (3), and
(4) of IEEPA (50 U.S.C. 1702(b)(1), (3), and (4)), or in regulations,
orders, directives, or licenses that may be issued pursuant to this order,
and notwithstanding any contract entered into or any license or permit
granted prior to the date of this order, all property and interests in
property of the following persons, that are in the United States, that
hereafter come within the United States, or that are or hereafter come
within the possession or control of United States persons, are blocked and
may not be transferred, paid, exported,

withdrawn, or otherwise dealt in: any person determined by the Secretary of
the Treasury, in consultation with the Secretary of State and the Secretary
of Defense,

(i) to have committed, or to pose a significant risk of committing, an act
or acts of violence that have the purpose or effect of:

(A) threatening the peace or stability of Iraq or the Government of Iraq;
or

(B) undermining efforts to promote economic reconstruction and political
reform in Iraq or to provide humanitarian assistance to the Iraqi people;

(ii) to have materially assisted, sponsored, or provided financial,
material, logistical, or technical support for, or goods or services in
support of, such an act or acts of violence or any person whose property
and interests in property are blocked pursuant to this order; or

(iii) to be owned or controlled by, or to have acted or purported to act
for or on behalf of, directly or indirectly, any person whose property and
interests in property are blocked pursuant to this order.

(b) The prohibitions in subsection (a) of this section include, but are not
limited to, (i) the making of any contribution or provision of funds,
goods, or services by, to, or for the benefit of any person whose property
and interests in property are blocked pursuant to this order, and (ii) the

receipt of any contribution or provision of funds, goods, or services from
any such person.

Sec. 2. (a) Any transaction by a United States person or within the United
States that evades or avoids, has the purpose

of evading or avoiding, or attempts to violate any of the prohibitions set
forth in this order is prohibited.

(b) Any conspiracy formed to violate any of the prohibitions set forth in
this order is prohibited.

Sec. 3. For purposes of this order:

(a) the term "person" means an individual or entity;

(b) the term "entity" means a partnership, association, trust, joint
venture, corporation, group, subgroup, or other organization; and

(c) the term "United States person" means any United States citizen,
permanent resident alien, entity organized under the laws of the United
States or any jurisdiction within the United States (including foreign
branches), or any person in the United States.

Sec. 4. I hereby determine that the making of donations of the type
specified in section 203(b)(2) of IEEPA (50 U.S.C. 1702(b)(2)) by, to, or
for the benefit of, any person whose property and interests in property are
blocked pursuant to this order would seriously impair my ability to deal
with the national emergency declared in Executive Order 13303 and expanded
in Executive Order 13315, and I hereby prohibit such donations as provided
by section 1 of this order.

Sec. 5. For those persons whose property and interests in property are
blocked pursuant to this order who might have a constitutional presence in
the United States, I find that, because of the ability to transfer funds or
other assets

instantaneously, prior notice to such persons of measures to be taken
pursuant to this order would render these measures ineffectual. I therefore
determine that for these measures to be effective in addressing the
national emergency declared in Executive Order 13303 and expanded in
Executive Order 13315, there need be no prior notice of a listing or
determination made pursuant to section 1(a) of this order.

Sec. 6. The Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation with the Secretary
of State and the Secretary of Defense, is hereby authorized to take such
actions, including the promulgation of rules and regulations, and to employ
all powers granted to the President by IEEPA as may be necessary to carry
out the purposes of this order. The Secretary of the Treasury may
redelegate any of these functions to other officers and agencies of the
United States Government, consistent with applicable law. All agencies of
the United States Government are hereby directed to take all appropriate
measures within their authority to carry out the provisions of this order
and, where appropriate, to advise the Secretary of the Treasury in a timely
manner of the measures taken.

Sec. 7. Nothing in this order is intended to affect the continued
effectiveness of any rules, regulations, orders, licenses, or other forms
of administrative action issued, taken, or continued in effect heretofore
or hereafter under 31 C.F.R. chapter V, except as expressly terminated,
modified, or suspended by or pursuant to this order.

Sec. 8. This order is not intended to, and does not, create any right,
benefit, or privilege, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in
equity by any party against the United States, its departments, agencies,
instrumentalities, or entities, its officers or employees, or any other
person.

GEORGE W. BUSH

THE WHITE HOUSE,

July 17, 2007.

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