[Federal Register Volume 72, Number 63 (Tuesday, April 3, 2007)]
[Notices]
[Pages 15930-15931]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E7-6152]


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DEPARTMENT OF STATE

[Public Notice 5739]


Additional Designation of Entity Pursuant to Executive Order 
13382

AGENCY: Department of State.

ACTION: Designation of the Defense Industries Organization Under 
Executive Order 13382.

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SUMMARY: Pursuant to the authority in section 1(ii) of Executive Order 
13382, ``Blocking Property of Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferators 
and Their Supporters'', the Assistant Secretary of State, acting under 
the authorities delegated to him by the Secretary of State, in 
consultation with the Secretary of the Treasury and the Attorney 
General, has determined that an Iranian entity, the Defense Industries 
Organization (``DIO''), has 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.

DATES: The designation by the Secretary of State of the entity 
identified in this notice pursuant to Executive Order 13382 is 
effective on March 30, 2007.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Director, Office of 
Counterproliferation Initiatives, Bureau of International Security and 
Nonproliferation, Department of State, Washington, DC 20520, tel.: 202/
647-7895.

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 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, and 
person whose property and interests in property are blocked pursuant to 
the Order.
    On March 28, 2007, the Secretary of State, in consultation with the 
Secretary of the Treasury, the Attorney General, and other relevant 
agencies, designated a person whose property and interests in property 
are blocked pursuant to Executive Order 13382.
    Information on the additional designee is as follows:
    1. Defense Industries Organization (a.k.a. Defence Industries 
Organisation; a.k.a. DIO; a.k.a. Saseman Sanaje Defa;

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a.k.a. Sazemane Sanaye Defa; a.k.a. ``Sasadja''), P.O. Box 19585-777, 
Pasdaran Street, Entrance of Babaie Highway, Permanent Expo of Defence 
Industries Organization, Tehran, Iran [NPWMD].

     Dated: March 28, 2007.
John C. Rood,
Assistant Secretary, International Security and Nonproliferation, 
Department of State.
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