05/17/2009
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"The measures in this order are designed primarily to address the need to prevent entities located in whole or in part in Iran and Syria from facilitating or committing serious human rights abuses."
"The measures in the order are designed primarily to address the need to prevent entities located in whole or in part in Iran and Syria from facilitating or committing serious human rights abuses."
"I have determined that the commission of serious human rights abuses against the people of Iran and Syria by their governments... threaten the national security and foreign policy of the United States..."
"I have issued an Executive Order that takes additional steps with respect to the national emergencies declared in Executive Order 12957 of March 15, 1995."