Executive Order 13606

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.) (IEEPA), the National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1601 et seq.), section 212(f) of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952, as amended (8 U.S.C. 1182(f)), and section 301 of title 3, United States Code, I,, President of the United States of America, hereby determine that the commission of serious human rights abuses against the people of Iran and Syria by their governments, facilitated by computer and network disruption, monitoring, and tracking by those governments, and abetted by entities in Iran and Syria that are complicit in their governments' malign use of technology for those purposes, threaten the national security and foreign policy of the United States. The Governments of Iran and Syria are endeavoring to rapidly upgrade their technological ability to conduct such activities. Cognizant of the vital importance of providing technology that enables the Iranian and Syrian people to freely communicate with each other and the outside world, as well as the preservation, to the extent possible, of global telecommunications supply chains for essential products and services to enable the free flow of information, 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. In order to take additional steps with respect to the national emergencies declared in Executive Order 12957 of March 15, 1995, as relied upon for additional steps in subsequent Executive Orders, and in Executive Order 13338 of May 11, 2004, as modified in scope and relied upon for additional steps in subsequent Executive Orders, and to address the situation described above, I hereby order:

Barack Obama The White House, April 23, 2012. [FR Doc. 2012–10034 Filed 4–23–12; 11:15 am] Billing Code 3295–F2–PBilling Code 4811–33–C

Individuals  Ali MAMLUK [director of the Syrian General Intelligence Directorate, born 1947] 

Entities  Syrian General Intelligence Directorate Syriatel Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps</li> <li>Iranian Ministry of Intelligence and Security<BR /></li> <li>Law Enforcement Forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran<BR /></li> <li>Datak Telecom<BR /></li> </ol> <BR />