On November 7, 2016, the Federal Register published Presidential Notice of November 3, 2016 – Continuation of the National Emergency With Respect to Iran, which extends the national emergency first declared in Executive Order (EO) 12170 of November 14, 1979 to deal with the unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security, foreign policy, and economy of the United States constituted by the situation in Iran. The emergency is being continued because our relations with Iran have not yet returned to normal, and the process of implementing the agreements with Iran, dated January 19, 1981, is still under way.
