[Federal Register Volume 78, Number 29 (Tuesday, February 12, 2013)]
[Notices]
[Pages 9996-9997]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2013-03175]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY

Office of Foreign Assets Control


Actions Taken Pursuant to Executive Order 13382

AGENCY: Office of Foreign Assets Control, Treasury Department.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control 
(``OFAC'') is publishing on OFAC's list of Specially Designated 
Nationals and Blocked Persons (``SDN List'') the names of four 
entities, 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.'' The 
designations by the Director of OFAC, pursuant to Executive Order 
13382, were effective on November 8, 2012.

DATES: The designations by the Director of OFAC, pursuant to Executive 
Order 13382, were effective on November 8, 2012.

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 (www.treasury.gov/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

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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 November 8, 2012, the Director of OFAC, in consultation with the 
Departments of State, Justice, and other relevant agencies, designated 
four entities whose property and interests in property are blocked 
pursuant to Executive Order 13382.
    The list of additional designees is as follows:
    1. BAQIYATTALLAH UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES (a.k.a. 
BAGHIATOLLAH MEDICAL SCIENCES UNIVERSITY; a.k.a. BAGHYATOLLAH MEDICAL 
SCIENCES UNIVERSITY; a.k.a. BAGIATOLLAH MEDICAL SCIENCES UNIVERSITY; 
a.k.a. BAQIATOLLAH MEDICAL SCIENCES UNIVERSITY; a.k.a. BAQIYATALLAH 
MEDICAL SCIENCES UNIVERSITY; a.k.a. BAQIYATALLAH UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL 
SCIENCES; a.k.a. BAQYATOLLAH MEDICAL SCIENCES UNIVERSITY), Vanak 
Square, Molla-Sadra Avenue, Box number: 19945, Tehran, Iran; Web site 
http://www.bmsu.ac.ir/[NPWMD] [IRGC] [IFSR].
    2. NATIONAL IRANIAN OIL COMPANY (a.k.a. NIOC), National Iranian Oil 
Company Building, Taleghani Avenue, Hafez Street, Tehran, Iran; Web 
site www.nioc.ir [NPWMD] [IFSR].
    3. IMAM HOSSEIN UNIVERSITY (a.k.a. EMAM HOSEYN COMPREHENSIVE 
UNIVERSITY; a.k.a. IHU; a.k.a. IMAAM HOSSEIN UNIVERSITY; a.k.a. IMAM 
HOSEYN UNIVERSITY; a.k.a. IMAM HOSSEIN UNIVERSITY COMPLEX; a.k.a. IMAM 
HUSSEIN UNIVERSITY; a.k.a. UNIVERSITY OF IMAM HOSEYN), Near Fourth 
Square, Tehran Pars, Shahid Babaie Highway, near Hakimiyeh and Mini-
city, Tehran, Iran; Kilometer 11, Shahid Babaei Highway, Tehran, Iran; 
Web site www.ihu.ac.ir [NPWMD] [IRGC] [IFSR].
    4. TEHRAN GOSTARESH COMPANY PJS, No. 24, 5th Alley, Khaled 
Eslamboli Street, Tehran 1513643811, Iran [NPWMD] [IRGC] [IFSR].

    Dated: November 8, 2012.
Adam J. Szubin,
Director, Office of Foreign Assets Control.
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