Joe Biden extended the United States’ national emergency concerning Iran for another year.
Joe Biden extended the United States’ national emergency concerning Iran for another year. Biden stated that since the then U.S. government declared a national emergency concerning Iran in November 1979, relations with Iran have not been normalized. At that time, U.S. President Jimmy Carter declared a national emergency concerning Iran in November 1979 through Executive Order 12170 and seized the country’s assets in the United States.