Trump Keeps Iran National Emergency Running for Another Year
President Donald Trump signed off on extending the national emergency on Iran for another 12 months, per a White House notice out Wednesday. The decades-old declaration stays live because relations with Tehran still aren't normalized, the notice says. It's a quiet paperwork move that keeps a long-standing pressure framework in place.
Donald Trump isn't letting the Iran emergency lapse. The president extended the national emergency concerning Iran for another year, according to a White House notice released Wednesday.
The notice was blunt about why. "Our relations with Iran have not yet normalized, and the process of implementing the agreements with Iran, dated January 19, 1981, is ongoing," it read. Trump added that the emergency and the measures rolled out in 1979 "must continue in effect beyond November 14, 2026."
That emergency dates back to November 14, 1979, declared in response to what the government called "the unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security, foreign policy, and economy of the United States constituted by the situation in Iran." It has now been renewed year after year for more than four decades.
The White House drew a line between this one and a second Iran-related emergency declared in March 1995. Two separate declarations, two separate sets of authorities, both still on the books.
The extension runs for another year, keeping the original 1979 measures in force. For now, Washington's posture toward Tehran stays exactly where it's been.
TopicsDonald Trump · Iran · White House · United States
Source: breakingthenews.net
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