[Federal Register Volume 85, Number 44 (Thursday, March 5, 2020)]
[Notices]
[Pages 12958-12959]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2020-04490]


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DEPARTMENT OF STATE

[Public Notice 11046]


Designation of One Iranian Entity and One Iranian Individual 
Pursuant to Executive Order 13382

ACTION: Notice of Designation.

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SUMMARY: Pursuant to the authority in Section 1(a)(ii) of Executive 
Order 13382, ``Blocking Property of Weapons of Mass Destruction 
Proliferators and Their Supporters,'' the State Department, in 
consultation with the Secretary of the Treasury and the Attorney 
General, has determined that the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran 
(AEOI) and the head of AEOI, Ali Akbar Salehi, 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 by Iran, through activities that are 
contrary to Iran's JCPOA commitment that Iran will not engage in 
activities that could contribute to the development of a nuclear 
explosive device.

DATES: The Secretary of State designated AEOI and the head of AEOI, Ali 
Akbar Salehi, pursuant to Executive Order 13382 on January 30, 2020.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Harry Thompson, Office of 
Counterproliferation Initiatives, Bureau of International Security and 
Nonproliferation, Department of State, Washington, DC 20520, tel.: 202-
736-7065.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 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 CFR 38567, July 1, 2005) (the ``Order''), effective at 12:01 
a.m. eastern daylight time on June 30, 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 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.
    As a result of this action, all property and interests in property 
of AEOI and Ali Akbar Salehi 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 are blocked 
and may not be transferred, paid, exported, withdrawn, or otherwise 
dealt in. Information on the designees:
    Entity: Atomic Energy Organization of Iran.
    AKA: AEOI.
    Address: North Kargar Street, P.O. Box 14155-1339, Tehran, Iran.
    Website: http://www.aeoi.orgjr.
    Individual: Ali Akbar Salehi.
    Date of Birth: March 25, 1949.
    Place of Birth: Karbala.
    Gender: Male.
    Nationality: IRAN.

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    Country: IRAN.

Gonzalo O. Suarez,
Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary, International Security and 
Nonproliferation, Department of State.
[FR Doc. 2020-04490 Filed 3-4-20; 8:45 am]
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