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Monitoring record · official sources

Daily watch: new US sanctions activity.

Each covered day, the full Federal Register issue is checked against a short, fully published set of criteria. Every action is listed with its country, its industry as OFAC states it, the standing target it links to, and its own official words.

Today

Monday 10 August 2026

Record covers 1 August 2026 through 7 August 2026.
Updated Monday 10 August 2026 · checked manually, not real-time.

Cuba · Iran
countries under sanctions-program actions
5
sanctions actions in the window
2
person-based designations — no country sanctioned
9
standing targets linked by new designations

Figures cover the recorded window only. They derive from 555 Federal Register documents checked in full across 5 publishing days; the method and its limits are stated at the foot of this page.

The calendar

One cell per day. A filled mark is a day with sanctions actions — select it to see them beside the date.

August 2026

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● sanctions actions (count shown) · ○ checked, no sanctions actions · – no Federal Register issue · faint dates are not yet covered · the outlined cell is today.

The record, day by day

Newest first. Weekend and holiday days without a Federal Register issue are recorded honestly rather than skipped.

  1. Friday 7 August 2026

    1 sanctions-related document among 100 published.

    • No country — persons designatedRemovalsEntry updates
      Notice of OFAC Sanctions ActionsNotice · Treasury Department · Foreign Assets Control Office · Counter-terrorismIndustry: not stated in the notice's machine-readable text — the entry list is printed as images in the Register · designated property includes aircraftLinked to standing targets: FLY BAGHDAD AIRLINES COMPANY · ISLAMIC REVOLUTIONARY GUARD CORPS — OFAC's “Linked To” field in the official entries

      “The U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) is publishing updates to the identifying information of one or more persons currently included in OFAC's Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons List (SDN List). OFAC is also publishing the names of one entity whose property and interests in property have been unblocked and two aircraft who have been removed from the SDN List.”

  2. Thursday 6 August 2026

    1 sanctions-related document among 154 published.

    • No country — persons designatedAdditions
      Notice of OFAC Sanctions ActionNotice · Treasury Department · Foreign Assets Control Office · Counter-terrorism · Global illicit drug tradeIndustry: “Chemicals and allied products wholesale” · “Construction of other civil engineering projects” (ISIC 4290) · “Transportation and storage” · “Wholesale and retail trade” — OFAC's own “Organization Type” wording in the official entriesLinked to standing targets: CARRILLO TORRES, Karina Guadalupe · RAMIREZ TORRES, Jose de Jesus · REYNOSO JIMENEZ, Alejandro · RUGERIO ARRIAGA, Maria Viridiana · SINALOA CARTEL — OFAC's “Linked To” field in the official entries

      “The U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) is publishing the names of one or more persons that have been placed on OFAC's Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons List (SDN List) based on OFAC's determination that one or more applicable legal criteria were satisfied. All property and interests in property subject to U.S. jurisdiction of these persons are blocked, and U.S. persons are generally prohibited from engaging in transactions with them.”

  3. Wednesday 5 August 2026

    2 sanctions-related documents among 90 published.

    • CubaAdditions
      Notice of Department of State Sanctions ActionsNotice · State Department · Cuba programIndustry: “Mining of other non-ferrous metal ores” (ISIC 0729) · “Public order and safety activities” (ISIC 8423) · “Travel agency activities” (ISIC 7911) — OFAC's own “Organization Type” wording in the official entries

      “The U.S. Department of State is publishing the names of persons who have been added to the Department of the Treasury's List of Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons (SDN List), administered by the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) based on the Secretary of State's determination pursuant to and in accordance with the referenced authority that one or more applicable criteria were satisfied. All property and interests in property subject to U.S. jurisdiction of the designated persons are blocked.”

    • IranAdditions
      Notice of OFAC Sanctions ActionNotice · Treasury Department · Foreign Assets Control Office · Iran programIndustry: not stated in the notice's machine-readable text — the entry list is printed as images in the Register · designated property includes vessels

      “The U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) is publishing the names of one or more persons and vessels that have been placed on OFAC's Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons List (SDN List) based on OFAC's determination that one or more applicable legal criteria were satisfied. All property and interests in property subject to U.S. jurisdiction of these persons are blocked, and U.S. persons are generally prohibited from engaging in transactions with them. The vessels placed on the SDN List have been identified as property in which a blocked person has an interest.”

  4. Tuesday 4 August 2026

    1 sanctions-related document among 98 published.

    • IranAdditionsRemovals
      Notice of OFAC Sanctions ActionNotice · Treasury Department · Foreign Assets Control Office · Counter-terrorism · Weapons-of-mass-destruction proliferation · Iran programIndustry: not stated in the notice's machine-readable text — the entry list is printed as images in the RegisterLinked to standing targets: JAFARI, Milad · MAHAN AIR — OFAC's “Linked To” field in the official entries

      “The U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) is publishing the name of one person whose property and interests in property have been unblocked and who has been removed from the Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons List (SDN List). OFAC is also publishing the names of one or more persons that have been placed on OFAC's Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons List (SDN List) based on OFAC's determination that one or more applicable legal criteria were satisfied. All property and interests in property subject to U.S. jurisdiction of these persons are blocked, and U.S. persons are generally prohibited from engaging in transactions with them.”

  5. Monday 3 August 2026

    No sanctions-related documents among 113 published.

  6. Sunday 2 August 2026

    No Federal Register issue published (weekend or federal holiday).

  7. Saturday 1 August 2026

    No Federal Register issue published (weekend or federal holiday).

Method, plainly

What is checked

For each covered day, the complete list of documents in that day's Federal Register issue is retrieved from the official Federal Register API. A document is listed here when at least one of these published criteria holds:

  • The document is issued by the Office of Foreign Assets Control (any document type), or
  • its title contains “sanction” (case-insensitive, so “sanctions” and “sanctioned” also match), or
  • its title contains “blocking property”, or
  • its title contains “specially designated nationals”.

Each listing answers: is a country being economically sanctioned? The answer comes from the legal authority the document itself cites. An action under a country's sanctions program (for example the Iran or Cuba program) shows that country. An action under a person-based authority — counter-terrorism, the global illicit drug trade, weapons proliferation — sanctions specific persons and entities, not a country, and the listing says so rather than guessing.

Each action also carries a plain what-happened label — additions, removals, entry updates — assigned by a fixed published rule from the notice's own summary wording, with the verbatim official summary directly beneath it as proof; and where a new designation states a connection to a standing sanctions target, that link is shown verbatim in OFAC's own “Linked To” wording, exactly as the official notice publishes it.

The criteria are deliberately simple and slightly over-inclusive: matching is by agency and title only, so every listing can be verified by eye against its official source. Official Treasury announcements are published separately at OFAC recent actions.

What this page does not claim

  • Not adjudicated. A match means the document met the published criteria — nothing more. No judgment about targets, scope, or effect is made here.
  • Not exhaustive. Sanctions activity can occur outside the Federal Register or under titles these criteria miss.
  • Not real-time. The check is run manually and the update date is always shown. If this page is stale, it says so above rather than implying freshness.
  • Countries come only from the cited authority. A country label appears when the document acts under that country's sanctions program. Country names that merely appear in the text — usually the addresses, nationalities, and passports of designated persons — never create a country label here.
  • Industry comes only from the notice. The quoted industry is OFAC's own “Organization Type” wording for each designated organization, verbatim. Where that wording exactly matches a UN ISIC Rev. 4 activity class title, the ISIC code is shown. These are activity classifications, not HS product codes: HS classifies traded goods, and mapping designations to products is index-construction work that appears only once it passes this project's accuracy checks. Individuals carry no stated type, and some notices print their entry lists only as images; both cases are stated plainly instead of guessed.

Full text and the official version of every document remain with the Federal Register; each listing links directly to it. The underlying day-by-day data is available at data/daily-watch.json.