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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
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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