OFAC issued General License W on 1 May, authorising wind-down transactions for newly blocked persons, and the same day published bulletin SB0483 designating three Iranian foreign-exchange houses, including Radin Exchange, under Executive Order 139021. Executive Order 13902 is the standing US authority that targets Iran's financial sector; SB0483 names the desks moving currency out of Tehran on behalf of sanctioned entities. GL-W is the procedural counterpart, defining the legal off-ramp for any foreign counterparty unwinding exposure to the new designations. The two instruments extend the Iran enforcement track Treasury opened the previous week and now overlap with the Chinese Blocking Rules contest set out in event 0.
The Department of War added paper of its own. Secretary Pete Hegseth's WPR letters to House Speaker Mike Johnson and Senator Chuck Grassley, declaring hostilities terminated as of 7 April, landed alongside the FY27 posture filing already on the record. The Maritime Freedom Construct sits inside the same enforcement basket, as set out for event 4, and Iran's fourth ceasefire text arrived through Islamabad's mediation channel the same day. Four cabinet departments shipped Iran-related instruments inside the same 48 hours.
The White House presidential-actions index records one executive order from Donald Trump on 1 May: Cuba sanctions2. Cabinet-level instruments carry the President's delegated authority but commit none of his personal political capital, whereas a signed presidential order locks both. Treasury and Defense paper this weekend tells allied governments how the United States is enforcing on Iran; the Cuba order is what the President was prepared to put his name to. Lisa Murkowski's 11 May AUMF deadline, the authorisation for use of military force she has conditioned on four named criteria, is the next forcing function on that gap. If she files, Congress will have written more on Iran than the President has; if The White House heads it off with a 'credible plan' that lands on paper, the asymmetry visible this weekend will shift.
