[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 36 (Thursday, February 23, 2012)]
[Notices]
[Pages 10807-10808]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2012-4214]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY

Office of Foreign Assets Control


Designation of One Entity Pursuant to Executive Order 13553

SUB-AGENCY: Office of Foreign Assets Control.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control 
(``OFAC'') is publishing the name of one entity newly-designated as an 
entity whose property and interests in property are blocked pursuant to 
Executive Order 13553 of September 28, 2010, ``Blocking Property of 
Certain Persons With Respect to Serious Human Rights Abuses by the 
Government of Iran and Taking Certain Other Actions.''

DATES: The designation by the Acting Director of OFAC of the entity 
identified in this notice, pursuant to Executive Order 13553 is 
effective February 16, 2012.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Assistant Director, Sanctions 
Compliance and Evaluation, 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.treas.gov/ofac) or via facsimile 
through a 24-hour fax-on-demand service, Tel.: 202/622-0077.

Background

    On September 28, 2010, the President issued Executive Order 13553, 
``Blocking Property of Certain Persons With Respect to Serious Human 
Rights Abuses by the Government of Iran and Taking Certain Other 
Actions'' (the ``Order'') pursuant to, inter alia, the International 
Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701-06) (``IEEPA'') and the 
Comprehensive Iran Sanctions, Accountability, and Divestment Act of 
2010 (Public Law 111-195). In the Order, the President took additional 
steps with respect to the national emergency declared in Executive 
Order 12957 of March 15, 1995.
    Section 1 of the Order blocks, with certain exceptions, all 
property and interests in property that are in the United States, that 
come within the United States, or that are or come within the 
possession or control of any United States person, of persons listed in 
the Annex to the Order and of persons determined by the Secretary of 
the Treasury, in consultation with or at the recommendation of the 
Secretary of State, to meet any of the criteria set forth in the Order.
    The Annex to the Order listed eight individuals whose property and 
interests in property are blocked pursuant to the Order.
    On February 16, 2012, the Acting Director of OFAC, in consultation 
with or at the recommendation of the Secretary of State, designated, 
pursuant to one or more of the criteria set forth in subparagraphs 
(a)(ii)(A) through

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(a)(ii)(C) of Section 1 of the Order, one entity whose property and 
interests in property are blocked, pursuant to the Order.
    The listing for this entity is as follows:

    <bullet> IRANIAN MINISTRY OF INTELLIGENCE AND SECURITY (a.k.a. 
VEZARAT-E ETTELA'AT VA AMNIAT-E KESHVAR; a.k.a. ``MOIS''; a.k.a. 
``VEVAK''), bounded roughly by Sanati Street on the west, 30th 
Street on the south, and Iraqi Street on the east, Tehran, Iran; 
Ministry of Intelligence, Second Negarestan Street, Pasdaran Avenue, 
Tehran, Iran [SDGT] [IRAN-HR] [SYRIA-HR]

    Dated: February 16, 2012.
Barbara C. Hammerle,
Acting Director, Office of Foreign Assets Control.
[FR Doc. 2012-4214 Filed 2-22-12; 8:45 am]
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