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AL-HUDA STATE COMPANY FOR RELIGIOUS TOURISM

Aliases

AL-HODA FOR RELIGIOUS TOURISM COMPANY; AL-HODA STATE COMPANY FOR RELIGIOUS TOURISM; AL-HUDA FOR RELIGIOUS TOURISM COMPANY

Address

Iraq

Official reason

Al-Huda served as a commercial front for the Iraqi Intelligence Service, an agency of the former Iraqi regime. Al-Huda, which held a monopoly over the provision, transportation and other tourism services to Iranian pilgrims visiting the Shi’ite shrines in Iraq, skimmed lucrative amounts off tour packages and directed the funds to the regime’s coff...

Other Information

https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/js1331

Date of listing

2004-04-15

Program information

Authority

US

Program

Executive Order 13315 Executive Order 13315 of August 28, 2003 Blocking Property of the Former Iraqi Regime, Its Senior Officials and Their Family Members, and Taking Certain Other Actions; Executive Order 13350 of July 29, 2004 Termination of Emergency Declared in Executive Order 12722 With Respect to Iraq and Modification of Executive Order 1329...

Regime

OFAC country specific

Target State

Iraq

Measures

Blocking Property

Official Information

In response to Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait on August 2, 1990, the United States imposed comprehensive sanctions, including a trade embargo against Iraq and a freeze of the assets of the then-Iraqi government, which were implemented in the Iraqi Sanctions Regulations, 31 C.F.R. part 575. Over the years, a series of Executive orders adjusted the sancti...

Additional Details

SDN

Program URL

https://ofac.treasury.gov/media/7386/download?inlinehttps://ofac.treasury.gov/media/7406/download?inline