    [Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 42, Number 46 (Monday, November 20, 2006)]
    [Pages 2041-2042]
    [Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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    Message to the Congress on Continuation of the National Emergency With
    Respect to Iran

    November 9, 2006

    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 to the Federal Register for publication, stating that
    the Iran emergency declared in Executive Order 12170 on November 14,
    1979, is to continue in effect beyond November 14, 2006.
        Our relations with Iran have not yet returned to normal, and the
    process of implementing the January 19, 1981, agreements with Iran is
    still underway. For these reasons,

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    I have determined that it is necessary to continue for 1 year the
    national emergency declared on November 14, 1979, with respect to Iran.
                                                    George W. Bush
     The White House,
     November 9, 2006.

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