General Licence DD
OFAC wind-down licence for transactions affected by the 8 September aviation sanctions.
General Licence DD expired at 00:01 Eastern on 23 September 2026 with no successor. It had been the only American cover for Iranian overflight payments, bunkering and emergency ship repairs.
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Timeline for General Licence DD
Expired on 23 September 2026 with no successor issued
Iran Conflict 2026: OFAC lets the ship repair licence lapseIran aviation licence expires 23 Sept
Iran Conflict 2026Set a 23 September cut-off for settling overflight and bunkering obligations
Iran Conflict 2026: Two Iran wind-down windows shut four days apartOFAC designates 27 of Iran's airlines
Iran Conflict 2026Background
General Licence DD was a wind-down authorisation, not a standing permission. The Office of Foreign Assets Control issued it on 8 September 2026, the day it suspended General Licence J-1, so that parties could unwind civil-aviation business already under way rather than face an immediate cut-off.
It covered three authorities: payments for flying over Iranian airspace at 31 CFR 560.522, refuelling or emergency repairs to a ship at 31 CFR 560.529, and certain civil aircraft flights into Iran and out again under General Licence J-1. Aircraft safety at 31 CFR 560.528 was left off the list. Publication in the Federal Register on 11 September 2026 put the expiry date on the public record twelve days ahead.
The licence expired at 00:01 Eastern on 23 September 2026 with no successor. OFAC is not required to announce a lapse and made none, which is the durable lesson: the absence of an Iran authority has to be read off a live list rather than waited for as a notice.
Expiry left no successor authority
The licence closed at 00:01 Eastern on 23 September 2026 and nothing replaced it. With it went the only American cover for paying Iranian overflight charges, bunkering a ship in Iran and carrying out emergency repairs there. A US person or US-linked insurer helping a ship in distress near Iranian waters now needs a licence of its own, or the narrower safety and environmental terms of General Licence T.
The Federal Register carried the expiry date on 11 September 2026, twelve days early. As of 21 September the live general-licence page still showed no extension, amendment or supersession marker against it. Airlines owing Iranian overflight charges had one working day to pay them into a blocked account; the same payment made later is a violation.
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