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In implementing the Iran nuclear framework, President Barack Obama may be the law, according to a report on Oct. 9.

A provision in the Iran deal that allows foreign subsidiaries of U.S. individuals or companies to conduct business in Iran is a blatant violation of U.S. federal law, Fox News reported.

U.S. individuals and U.S. foreign subsidiaries are prohibited from doing business with Iran as long as it is designated as a state sponsor of terrorism (Iran, Syria and North Korea are designated as such). The legislation is known as the Iran Threat Reduction and Syria Human Rights Act (ITRA) and was signed into law by Obama in 2012.

According to the Fox News report, as long as Iran remains on the list of state sponsors of terror, the nuclear deal would violate the ITRA if Obama treats the foreign subsidies as different than their parent companies or if he treated both the parent and subsidiary as the same.

If the provision of the nuclear deal is to be implemented, the report said, Obama would have to waive the federal law he ratified in the first place.

Some legal analysts, though, believe Obama may be in the clear since the Iran nuclear deal, or Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) is not a treaty but an executive order that was not officially approved by Congress.

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