OFAC Alert: Notice to Foreign Financial Institutions Conducting Business with Iran

October 5, 2026

Publication: 

Office of Foreign Assets Control

Related Country: 

  • Russia
  • Turkey
  • United Arab Emirates

The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) is alerting foreign financial institutions that continue to do business with Iran or its financial sector that they may be sanctioned under “Operation Economic Outcast.” Foreign financial institutions continuing to transact with sanctioned Iranian financial institutions could be targeted at any time without advance notification and should take immediate action to terminate such activity and relationships.

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