International Registries, Inc. (IRI) is a company based in

Reston, Virginia Reston is a census-designated place in Fairfax County, Virginia, United States, and a principal city of both Northern Virginia and the Washington metropolitan area. As of the 2020 U.S. census, Reston's population was 63,226. Founded in 1964, Rest ...

, United States, which operates the

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ship registry and

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of the

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on behalf of the

Republic of the Marshall Islands The Marshall Islands, officially the Republic of the Marshall Islands, is an island country west of the International Date Line and north of the equator in the Micronesia region of the Northwestern Pacific Ocean. The territory consists of 29 ...

(RMI). The company began as "Stettinius associates-Liberia, Inc.", a company founded in 1948 by

Edward Stettinius, Jr. Edward Reilly Stettinius Jr. (October 22, 1900 – October 31, 1949) was an American businessman who served as United States Secretary of State under Presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman from 1944 to 1945, and as U.S. Ambassador ...

to operate

registry in

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. After a series of mergers, Stettinius associates became IRI. IRI then moved from Liberia to the

after Liberia's president Charles Taylor demanded too much money from the company.Rodney Carlisle, "The 'American Century' implemented: Stettinius and the Liberian flag of convenience", ''The Business History Review'', 54, no.2 (1980).Khadija Sharife, "Oil makes its own laws", ''Le Monde Diplomatique English Edition'', July 2010, p.1.

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