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Message to the Congress of the United States Regarding International
Emergency Economic Powers Act
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For Immediate Release Office of the Press Secretary July 17, 2007

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

˙˙White House News

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

Pursuant to the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, as amended (50
U.S.C. 1701 et seq.)(IEEPA), I hereby report that I have issued an
Executive Order blocking property of persons determined to have committed,
or to pose a significant risk of committing, an act or acts of violence
that have the purpose or effect of threatening the peace or stability of
Iraq or the Government of Iraq or undermining efforts to promote economic
reconstruction and political reform in Iraq or to provide humanitarian
assistance to the Iraqi people. I issued this order 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. In these
previous Executive Orders, I ordered various measures to address the
unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign
policy of the United States posed by obstacles to the orderly
reconstruction of Iraq, the restoration and maintenance of peace and
security in that country, and the development of political, administrative,
and economic institutions in Iraq.

My new order takes additional steps with respect to the national emergency
declared in Executive Order 13303 and expanded in Executive Order 13315 by
blocking the property and interests in property of persons determined by
the Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation with the Secretary of State
and the Secretary of Defense, to have committed, or to pose a significant
risk of committing, an act or acts of violence that have the purpose or
effect of threatening the peace or stability of Iraq or the Government of
Iraq or undermining efforts to

promote economic reconstruction and political reform in Iraq or to provide
humanitarian assistance to the Iraqi people. The order further authorizes
the Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation with the Secretary of State
and the Secretary of Defense, to designate for blocking those persons
determined 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 designated
pursuant to this order, or 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.

I delegated to the Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation with the
Secretary of State and the Secretary of Defense, the authority 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 my order. I am enclosing a copy of the Executive Order
I have issued.

GEORGE W. BUSH

The White House,

July 17, 2007.

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