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Structured register of government actions in the geoeconomic space — export controls, tariffs, sanctions, FDI screening, subsidies, industrial-policy laws — cross-referenced into the country, minerals, and ETF surface. Charter: docs/IPTM_CHARTER.md.
Severity 1-5 is the qualitative impact rating (1=minor, 5=structural). The bilateral-trade-grounded quant scorer is the next IPTM milestone. RBI (Register Breadth Index) is a complementary structural-breadth indicator from scripts/py/iptm/breadth.py; divergence between RBI and severity is itself informative (high-sev / low-RBI = strategic chokepoint; low-sev / high-RBI = broad but shallow). Every action has at least one primary source URL. Verify-or-don't-file. See also themes, timeline, graph, sankey, map, country exposure, sector exposure, material exposure (+ graph), weekly briefs, portfolio scan, escalation monitor, trans-shipment hubs. Internal triage tools (RSS-poller candidate feed, source-feed health) live under /admin/candidates + /admin/sources. Subscribe via Atom feed (accepts ?country=CN, ?material=lithium, ?issuer=BIS, ?type=export_control, ?etf=SOXX, ?company=NVDA, ?minSeverity=4, ?year=2026, ?q=…) or pull /api/iptm/actions.
On 24 August 2026, the Director of OFAC, in consultation with the Department of State and pursuant to 31 CFR 560.802, determined that section 1(a)(i) of Executive Order 13902 shall apply to the aviation, digital asset, gold, shipping, and technology sectors of the Iranian economy, effective the same day and formally published in the Federal Register on 27 August 2026 (FR Doc 2026-17487). The determination — part of a Treasury campaign publicly branded "Operation Economic Outcast" — exposes any person operating in, or knowingly engaging in a significant transaction for the sale, supply, or transfer of significant goods or services to or from, these five sectors to secondary-sanctions and SDN-listing risk under E.O. 13902, and extends potential correspondent/ payable-through account restrictions to foreign financial institutions that knowingly facilitate such transactions. OFAC did not publish sector definitions and concurrently suspended several general licenses covering educational exchange, personal remittance, conference, and academic/ sports-exchange activity with Iran (administered separately via GL AA and GL BB, wind-down through 8 September 2026).
On 22 September 2025, OFAC announced that ShapeShift AG — a now-defunct digital-asset exchange incorporated in Switzerland and operated from Denver, Colorado (ceased operations 2021) — agreed to pay USD 750,000 to settle potential civil liability for 17,183 apparent violations of four OFAC sanctions programs: the Cuban Assets Control Regulations (CACR), the Iranian Transactions and Sanctions Regulations (ITSR), the Sudanese Sanctions Regulations (SSR), and the Syrian Sanctions Regulations (SySR). The violations occurred between 10 December 2016 and 9 October 2018, when ShapeShift's platform processed USD 12,570,956 in exchanges for users located in sanctioned jurisdictions. OFAC found that ShapeShift failed to implement any internal controls to screen users in sanctioned jurisdictions until after receiving an OFAC administrative subpoena, yielding a base penalty of USD 39,515,000 — reduced to USD 750,000 by mitigating factors including the entity's now-defunct status, the historical-period nature of the violations, voluntary cooperation after the subpoena, and a no-recidivism finding.