U.S. President Donald Trump has decided to extend the national emergency related to Iran, which includes unilateral sanctions against the Islamic Republic, for another year.
In a statement published in the Federal Register—the official journal of U.S. government documents—Trump declared:
“I hereby extend the national emergency with respect to Iran for one year.”
According to the statement,
“Relations between the United States and Iran have not yet been normalized,”
and
“The process of implementing the bilateral agreements signed on January 19, 1981, is ongoing,”
referring to the Algiers Accords between Washington and Tehran.
Trump added:
“For this reason, the national emergency declared on November 14, 1979, and the measures taken at that time to address it, must remain in effect beyond November 14, 2025.”
The Algiers Accords led to the release of American diplomats who were held hostage in Iran for over a year following the 1979 revolution. The agreements emphasized the principle of non-interference in each other's internal affairs.
It’s worth noting that on November 14, 1979, the 39th U.S. President, Jimmy Carter, issued Executive Order 12170 in response to the hostage crisis in Tehran. Carter directed the Treasury Department to freeze all official Iranian assets in the United States, including accounts in American banks and their foreign branches—marking the beginning of U.S. economic sanctions against Iran.
On April 7, 1980, Carter severed diplomatic relations with Tehran and imposed a ban on the export of all goods from the U.S. to Iran, including food and medicine. This was followed by a ban on Iranian imports and restrictions on American travel to Iran.