[Federal Register Volume 78, Number 245 (Friday, December 20, 2013)]
[Notices]
[Pages 77203-77204]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2013-30299]


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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 
and three individuals, 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 December 12, 2013.

DATES: The designations by the Director of OFAC, pursuant to Executive 
Order 13382, were effective on December 12, 2013.

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

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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 December 12, 2013, the Director of OFAC, in consultation with 
the Departments of State, Justice, and other relevant agencies, 
designated four entities and three individuals whose property and 
interests in property are blocked pursuant to Executive Order 13382.
    The list of additional designees is as follows:

    1. QODS AVIATION INDUSTRIES (a.k.a. GHODS AVIATION INDUSTRIES; 
a.k.a. QODS RESEARCH CENTER), P.O. Box 15875-1834, Km 5 Karaj 
Special Road, Tehran, Iran; Unit (or Suite) 207, Saleh Blvd., 
Tehran, Iran; Unit 207, Tarajit Maydane Taymori (or Teimori) Square, 
Basiri Building, Tarasht, Tehran, Iran; Additional Sanctions 
Information--Subject to Secondary Sanctions [NPWMD] [IFSR].
    2. IRAN AVIATION INDUSTRIES ORGANIZATION (a.k.a. SAZMANE SANAYE 
HAVAI), Karaj Special Road, Mehrabad Airport, Tehran, Iran; Sepahbod 
Gharani 36, Tehran, Iran; 3th km Karaj Special Road, Aviation 
Industries Boulevard, Tehran, Iran; Additional Sanctions 
Information--Subject to Secondary Sanctions [NPWMD] [IFSR].
    3. AMIDI, Reza; DOB 30 Sep 1962; POB Tehran, Iran; Additional 
Sanctions Information--Subject to Secondary Sanctions (individual) 
[NPWMD] [IFSR].
    4. FAN PARDAZAN, P.O. Box 15875-1834, Km 5 Karaj Special Road, 
Tehran, Iran; Unit (or Suite) 207, Saleh Blvd., Tehran, Iran; Unit 
207, Tarajit Maydane Taymori (or Teimori) Square, Basin Building, 
Tarasht, Tehran, Iran; Additional Sanctions Information--Subject to 
Secondary Sanctions [NPWMD] [IFSR].
    5. ERTEBAT GOSTAR NOVIN, Unit 207, No. 20 Salehi Boulevard, 
Tarasht, Tehran, Iran; Additional Sanctions Information--Subject to 
Secondary Sanctions [NPWMD] [IFSR].
    6. DAYENI, Mahmoud Mohammadi; Subject to Secondary Sanctions 
IFCA; Passport J16661804 (Iran) (individual) [NPWMD] [IFSR] (Linked 
To: NEKA NOVIN).
    7. KAHVARIN, Iradj Mohammadi; Subject to Secondary Sanctions 
IFCA; Passport X15232608 (Iran) (individual) [NPWMD] [IFSR] (Linked 
To: NEKA NOVIN).

    In addition, on December 12, 2013, the Director of OFAC amended the 
designation record for NEKA NOVIN to include four new aliases. The 
updated entry on the SDN List is as follows:

Entity

    NEKA NOVIN (a.k.a. KIA NIROU, BLOCK NIROU SUN CO, BNSA CO., NEKU 
NIROU TAVAN CO.), Unit 7, No. 12, 13th Street, Mir-Emad St., Motahary 
Avenue, Tehran 15875-6653, Iran; No. 2, 3rd Floor, Simorgh St., Dr. 
Shariati Avenue, Tehran, Iran [NPWMD].

    Dated: December 12, 2013.
Barbara C. Hammerle,
Acting Director, Office of Foreign Assets Control.
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