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###### Department of the Treasury

###### Office of Foreign Assets Control

# AGENCY:

Office of Foreign Assets Control, Treasury.

# ACTION:

Notice.

# SUMMARY:

The Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) is publishing the names of four newly-designated entities and one individual 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, pursuant to Executive Order 13382, of the entities and individual identified in this notice is effective on February 10, 2010.

# 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 an 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 10, 2010, the Acting Director of OFAC, in consultation with the Department of State designated the four entities and one individual whose property and interests in property are blocked pursuant to Executive Order 13382:

The list of designees is as follows:

*Fater Engineering Institute*                     (a.k.a. Fater Engineering Company; a.k.a. Faater Institute; a.k.a. Gharargah Ghaem Faater Institute); No. 25, Valiasr Jonoobi, Azizi Street, Azadi Sq. NE, Tehran, Iran; (Entity) [NPWMD].                

*Imensazen Consultant Engineers Institute;*                     No.                     5/1                    , Niroo Alley, Padegan-e-Valiasr Street, Sepah Square, Tehran, Iran; (Entity) [NPWMD].                

*Makin Institute*                     (a.k.a. Makin Company); No. 2 Iravan St.—Tishfoon St.—Khaje Abdol ah Ansari St.—Shariati St., Tehran, Iran; (Entity) [NPWMD].                

*Rahab Institute*                     (f.k.a. Rahsaz Institute); Ghorb-e Ghaem Building, Valiasr St., Azizi Blvd., Azadi Sq., Tehran, Iran; Eastern 14th St., Beihaghi Blvd., Arjantin Sq., Tehran, Iran; (Entity) [NPWMD].                

*Qasemi, Rostam*                     (a.k.a. Ghasemi Mohammadali, Rostam); Iran; Citizen Iran; Nationality Iran; Passport A2463775 (Iran); (Individual) [NPWMD].                

Dated: February 19, 2010.

Adam J. Szubin,

Director, Office of Foreign Assets Control.

[FR Doc. 2010-4592 Filed 3-4-10; 8:45 am]

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