[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 114 (Tuesday, June 14, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Pages 34805-34806]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-14713]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY

Office of Foreign Assets Control


Designation of Three Entities and One Individual Pursuant to 
Executive Order 13553

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 names of one individual and three entities 
newly-designated as persons whose property and interests in property 
are blocked pursuant to Executive Order 13553 of

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September 28, 2010, ``Blocking Property of Certain Persons With Respect 
to Serious Human Rights Abuses by the Government of Iran and Taking 
Certain Other Actions.'' The property and interests in property of one 
of the entities are already blocked pursuant to another OFAC sanctions 
program.

DATES: The designation by the Director of OFAC of the one individual 
and three entities identified in this notice, pursuant to Executive 
Order 13553 of September 28, 2010, is effective June 9, 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/ofac) or via 
facsimile through a 24-hour fax-on-demand service, Tel.: 202/622-0077.

Background

    On September 28, 2010, the President issued Executive Order 13553, 
``Blocking Property of Certain Persons With Respect to Serious Human 
Rights Abuses by the Government of Iran and Taking Certain Other 
Actions'' (the ``Order'') pursuant to, inter alia, the International 
Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701-06) and the Comprehensive 
Iran Sanctions, Accountability, and Divestment Act of 2010 (Pub. L. 
111-195). In the Order, the President took additional steps with 
respect to the national emergency declared in Executive Order 12957 of 
March 15, 1995.
    Section 1 of the Order blocks, with certain exceptions, all 
property and interests in property that are in the United States, that 
come within the United States, or that are or come within the 
possession or control of any United States person, of persons listed in 
the Annex to the Order and of persons determined by the Secretary of 
the Treasury, in consultation with or at the recommendation of the 
Secretary of State, to meet any of the criteria set forth in the Order.
    The Annex to the Order listed eight individuals whose property and 
interests in property are blocked pursuant to the Order.
    On June 9, 2011, the Director of OFAC, in consultation with or at 
the recommendation of the Secretary of State, designated, pursuant to 
one or more of the criteria set forth in subparagraphs (a)(ii)(A) 
through (a)(ii)(C) of Section 1 of the Order, one individual and three 
entities as being blocked pursuant to the Order. As noted above and in 
the listing below, the property and interests in property of one these 
entities are already blocked pursuant to another OFAC sanctions 
program. The listing for these persons is as follows:

Individual

    MOGHADAM, Ismail Ahmadi (a.k.a. AHMADI-MOGHADDAM, Esma'il; a.k.a. 
AHMADI-MOQADDAM, Esma'il; a.k.a. MOGHADDAM, Esmaeel Ahmadi; a.k.a. 
MOGHADDAM, Ismail Ahmadi); DOB 1961; POB Tehran, Iran; Head of Iranian 
Police; Chief, Iran's Law Enforcement (individual) [IRAN-HR]

Entities

    ISLAMIC REVOLUTIONARY GUARD CORPS (a.k.a. AGIR; a.k.a. IRANIAN 
REVOLUTIONARY GUARD CORPS; a.k.a. IRG; a.k.a. IRGC; a.k.a. ISLAMIC 
REVOLUTIONARY CORPS; a.k.a. PASDARAN; a.k.a. PASDARAN-E ENGHELAB-E 
ISLAMI; a.k.a. PASDARAN-E INQILAB; a.k.a. REVOLUTIONARY GUARD; a.k.a. 
REVOLUTIONARY GUARDS; a.k.a. SEPAH; a.k.a. SEPAH PASDARAN; a.k.a. 
SEPAH-E PASDARAN-E ENQELAB-E ESLAMI; a.k.a. THE ARMY OF THE GUARDIANS 
OF THE ISLAMIC REVOLUTION; a.k.a. THE IRANIAN REVOLUTIONARY GUARDS), 
Tehran, Iran [NPWMD] [IRGC] [IRAN-HR]
    BASIJ RESISTANCE FORCE (a.k.a. BASEEJ; a.k.a. BASIJ-E MELLI; a.k.a. 
MOBILIZATION OF THE OPPRESSED ORGANIZATION; f.k.a. NATIONAL 
MOBILIZATION ORGANIZATION; f.k.a. SAZMAN BASIJ MELLI; a.k.a. SAZMAN-E 
MOGHAVEMAT-E BASIJ; f.k.a. VAHED-E BASIJ-E MOSTAZAFEEN; a.k.a. 
``NATIONAL RESISTANCE MOBILIZATION''; a.k.a. ``RESISTANCE MOBILIZATION 
FORCE'') [IRGC] [IRAN-HR]
    LAW ENFORCEMENT FORCES OF THE ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN (a.k.a. 
IRANIAN LAW ENFORCEMENT FORCES; a.k.a. IRANIAN POLICE; a.k.a. NAJA; 
a.k.a. NIRUYIH INTIZAMIYEH JUMHURIYIH ISLAMIYIH IRAN) [IRAN-HR]

    Dated: June 9, 2011.
Barbara C. Hammerle,
Acting Director, Office of Foreign Assets Control.
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