OFAC published a notice in Monday’s Federal Register updating the identifying information of entries on its sanctions lists. The action, dated November 4, applies secondary sanctions information to names associated with the IRAN-EO13902 programme, the executive order covering Iran’s construction, mining, manufacturing and textiles sectors. It is an identifier update rather than a new designation round, but it widens the documented exposure of the named parties to secondary sanctions, and the full updated list sits on OFAC’s recent actions page.
Qatar’s prime minister, Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, is due at the White House on Monday, the next step in the mediation channel through which Iran has sent Washington a nuclear proposal and through which President Trump spoke with Qatar’s emir on Friday about de-escalation. The visit follows a weekend in which Qatar denied reports that the US and Iran had failed to reach a deal, and its outcome is the first concrete test of the diplomatic track behind Trump’s Sunday remarks on strikes, covered in full in today’s Iran story.
The Russia Ukraine US trilateral talks open in Abu Dhabi on Tuesday, November 10, running to November 11, the next scheduled round on the Ukraine track. They begin while Kyiv’s services are still only partially restored after the November 6 to 7 strikes on nuclear substations, a file this site updated on Sunday, and any readout, agenda or delegation list from the opening session is the document to watch.