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The Comprehensive Iran Sanctions, Accountability, and Divestment Act of 2010 (Pub. L. 111–195 (text) (PDF), 124 Stat. 1312, enacted July 1, 2010; CISADA) is a law passed by the U.S. Congress that applies further sanctions on the government of Iran. CISADA extended U.S. economic sanctions placed on Iran under the Iran Sanctions Act of 1996 and ...
Asset freezing is a form of interim or interlocutory injunction which prevents a defendant to an action from dealing with or dissipating its assets so as to frustrate a potential judgment. It is widely recognised in other common law jurisdictions [1] and such orders can be made to have world-wide effect. It is variously construed as part of a ...
Azza Air Transport, former Cargo airline, in the SDN List. The Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons List, also known as the SDN List, is a United States government sanctions/embargo measure targeting U.S.-designated terrorists, officials and beneficiaries of certain authoritarian regimes, and international criminals (e.g. drug traffickers).
The categories are used to differentiate between the political contexts due to the global nature of the act. The first category involves such sanctions that are designed to force cooperation with international law. [12] This can be seen in the sanctions placed on Iraq in Resolution 661 on August 6, 1990, after the initial invasion of ...
Building of the IUSCT in The Hague. The Iran–United States Claims Tribunal (IUSCT) is an international arbitral tribunal established by the Algiers Accords, an international agreement between the U.S. and Iran embodied in two Declarations by the Government of the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria issued on 19 January 1981, to resolve the crisis in relations between the two countries ...
The Algiers Accords of January 19, 1981 was a set of obligations and commitments undertaken independently by the United States and Iran to resolve the Iran hostage crisis, brokered by the Algerian government and signed in Algiers on January 19, 1981. [1] The crisis began from the takeover of the American embassy in Tehran on November 4, 1979 ...
United States sanctions are financial and trade restrictions imposed against individuals, entities, and jurisdictions whose actions contradict U.S. foreign policy or national security goals. Financial sanctions are primarily administered by the U.S. Department of the Treasury 's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), while export controls are ...
Passed the House on July 22, 2014 ( Roll Call Vote 434: 404-0) The Hezbollah International Financing Prevention Act of 2014 ( H.R. 4411) is a bill that would impose sanctions on foreign financial institutions that facilitate transactions or money laundering on behalf of Hezbollah or its agents. [1] Hezbollah is designated a terrorist ...