[Congressional Record Volume 148, Number 28 (Wednesday, March 13, 2002)]
[Senate]
[Pages S1856-S1857]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                          PRESIDENTIAL MESSAGE

  The following presidential message was laid before the Senate 
together with accompanying reports, which was referred as indicated:

       PM-75. A message from the President of the United States, 
     transmitting, pursuant to law, the Periodic Report on the 
     National Emergency with Respect to Iran; to the Committee on 
     Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.

To the Congress of the United States:
  Section 202(d) of the National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1622(d)) 
provides for the automatic termination of a national emergency unless, 
prior to the anniversary date of its declaration, the President 
publishes in the Federal Register and transmits to the Congress a 
notice stating that the emergency is to continue in effect beyond the 
anniversary date. In accordance with this provision, I have sent the 
enclosed notice, stating that the Iran emergency is to continue in 
effect beyond March 15, 2002, to the Federal Register for publication. 
The most recent notice continuing this emergency was published in the 
Federal Register on March 14, 2001 (66 Fed. Reg. 15013).
  The crisis between the United States and Iran constituted by the 
actions and policies of the Government of Iran, including its support 
for international terrorism, efforts to undermine Middle East peace, 
and acquisition of weapons of mass destruction and the means to deliver 
them, that led to the declaration of a national emergency on March 15, 
1995, has not been resolved. These actions and policies are contrary to 
the interests of the United States in the region and pose a continuing 
unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security, foreign 
policy, and economy

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of the United States. For these reasons, I have determined that it is 
necessary to continue the national emergency declared with respect to 
Iran and maintain in force comprehensive sanctions against Iran to 
respond to this threat.
                                                      George W. Bush.  
The White House, March 13, 2002.

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