[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 44 (Monday, March 7, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Pages 12414-12415]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-5056]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY

Office of Foreign Assets Control


Additional Designation of Entity Pursuant to Executive Order 
13382

AGENCY: Office of Foreign Assets Control, Treasury.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control 
(``OFAC'') is publishing the name of 1 newly-designated entity whose 
property and interests in property are blocked pursuant to Executive 
Order 13382 of June 28, 2005, ``Blocking Property of Weapons of Mass 
Destruction Proliferators and Their Supporters.''

DATES: The designation by the Director of OFAC of the 1 entity 
identified in this notice pursuant to Executive Order 13382 is 
effective on February 17, 2011.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Assistant Director, Compliance 
Outreach & Implementation, Office of Foreign Assets Control, Department 
of the Treasury, Washington, DC 20220, tel.: 202/622-2490.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Electronic and Facsimile Availability

    This document and additional information concerning OFAC are 
available from OFAC's Web site (http://www.treas.gov/offices/enforcement/ofac) or via facsimile through a 24-hour fax-on demand 
service, tel.: (202) 622-0077.
    Background: On June 28, 2005, the President, invoking the 
authority, inter alia, of the International Emergency Economic Powers 
Act (50 U.S.C. 1701-1706) (``IEEPA''), issued Executive Order 13382 (70 
FR 38567, July 1, 2005) (the ``Order''), effective at 12:01 a.m. 
eastern daylight time on June 29, 2005. In the Order, the President 
took additional steps with respect to the national emergency described 
and declared in Executive Order 12938 of November 14, 1994, regarding 
the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and the means of 
delivering them.
    Section 1 of the Order blocks, with certain exceptions, all 
property and interests in property that are in the United States, or 
that hereafter come within the United States or that are or hereafter 
come within the possession or control of United States persons, of: (1) 
The persons listed in the Annex to the Order; (2) any foreign person 
determined by the Secretary of State, in consultation with the 
Secretary of the Treasury, the Attorney General, and other relevant 
agencies, to have engaged, or attempted to engage, in activities or 
transactions that have materially contributed to, or pose a risk of 
materially contributing to, the proliferation of weapons of mass 
destruction or their means of delivery (including missiles capable of 
delivering such weapons), including any efforts to manufacture, 
acquire, possess, develop, transport, transfer or use such items, by 
any person or foreign country of proliferation concern; (3) any person 
determined by the Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation with the 
Secretary of State, the Attorney General, and other relevant agencies, 
to have provided, or attempted to provide, financial, material, 
technological or other support for, or goods or services in support of, 
any activity or transaction described in clause (2) above or any person 
whose property and interests in property are blocked pursuant to the 
Order; and (4) any person determined by the Secretary of the Treasury, 
in consultation with the Secretary of State, the Attorney General, and 
other relevant agencies, to be owned or controlled by, or acting or 
purporting to act for or on behalf of, directly or indirectly, any 
person whose property and interests in property are blocked pursuant to 
the Order.
    On February 17, 2011, the Director of OFAC, in consultation with 
the Departments of State, Justice, and other relevant agencies, 
designated 1 entity whose property and interests in property are 
blocked pursuant to Executive Order 13382.
    The additional designee is as follows:

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Entity

    BANK REFAH KARGARAN (a.k.a. BANK REFAH; a.k.a. WORKERS' WELFARE 
BANK (OF IRAN)), No. 40 North Shiraz Street, Mollasadra Ave, Vanak Sq, 
Tehran, Iran; all offices worldwide [IRAN] [NPWMD] [IFSR]

    Dated: February 17, 2011.
Adam J. Szubin,
Director, Office of Foreign Assets Control.
[FR Doc. 2011-5056 Filed 3-4-11; 8:45 am]
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