Retrieved 17 August 2026, HTTP 200. EACH FAQ CARRIES A 'Date Released' OF 30 JUNE 2025, so the earlier caution in this row that the page was undated is WITHDRAWN: it was undated only in the part first read
Claims
CH6 the US permission position on Syrian financial institutions and the Central Bank of Syria
Status
READ
Version history
The register keeps changing after the book is fixed in print. Each entry below was added to this row in the order shown.
READ 17 August 2026 at the question and the opening of the answer; the remainder of the answer and the rest of the FAQ set are NOT read. IT ANSWERS THE PERMISSION LIMB IN THE REGULATOR'S OWN WORDS: 'All Syrian financial institutions, including the Central Bank of Syria, have been removed from OFAC's List of Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons.' And: 'Effective July 1, 2025, U.S. persons are not prohibited from providing financial services to Syria, processing payments on behalf of third country financial institutions involving Syrian financial institutions, or conducting transactions with the new Government of Syria and Syrian financial institutions'. THE SENTENCE IS TRUNCATED IN THE READ SCOPE at 'p...', so the proviso that follows IS NOT READ and no claim may rest on the answer being unqualified. The page also shows OFAC's programme name for the surviving regime, Promoting Accountability for Assad and Regional Stabilization Sanctions, PAARSS, matching SRC-174. UNDATED PAGE: recheck at proof stage.
ALL THREE FAQs NOW READ IN FULL, 17 August 2026, AND THE TRUNCATION CAUTION ABOVE IS DISCHARGED. FAQ 1221's proviso, which the earlier reading cut off, is: US persons are not prohibited from those activities 'PROVIDED THAT NONE OF THE INVOLVED PARTIES ARE ON THE SDN LIST. This includes establishing correspondent banking relationships with Syrian financial institutions.' It then names the FinCEN exceptive relief of late May 2025 at SRC-201, and closes: 'OFAC strongly encourages financial institutions to employ a risk-based sanctions compliance program and update it as appropriate in consideration of new business lines.' SO THE PERMISSION IS EXPRESS AND SO IS THE RESIDUAL DILIGENCE. FAQ 1220 CARRIES THE NUMBER THAT MAKES THE POINT CONCRETE. It confirms the six revoked orders by name and date, that persons blocked SOLELY under them were removed from the SDN List and their property unblocked, and that 'Pending or future OFAC investigations or enforcement actions related to apparent violations of the Syrian Sanctions Regulations that occurred prior to July 1, 2025 may still be carried out', which is EO 14312 section 3(b) restated by the regulator. AND: 'Concurrently with the issuance of the E.O. of June 30, 2025, OFAC DESIGNATED 139 PERSONS who were previously designated under the Syrian Sanctions Program under E.O. 13894, as further amended, or other OFAC authorities.' 139 IS THE FIGURE BEHIND 'REVOCATION MOVED NAMES AND DID NOT CLEAR THEM' at SRC-173, and it is OFAC's own count on its own day. FAQ 1223: General Licence 25 SURVIVES the revocation. 'While Syria GL 25 authorizes transactions otherwise prohibited under the Syrian Sanctions Regulations, it also authorizes transactions involving specified persons otherwise prohibited by certain other sanctions programs. To the extent necessary, persons may continue to rely on GL 25 and the related FAQs.' THE TEXT OF GL 25 ITSELF IS STILL NOT RETRIEVED and remains a named route.