Executive order · Signed April 22, 2012

Blocking the Property and Suspending Entry Into the United States of Certain Persons With Respect to Grave Human Rights Abuses by the Governments of Iran and Syria via Information Technology

President Barack Obama signed it on April 22, 2012. Published in the Federal Register on April 24, 2012, 77 FR 24571.

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