[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 36 (Thursday, February 23, 2012)]
[Notices]
[Page 10808]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2012-4120]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY

Office of Foreign Assets Control


Designation of One Entity Pursuant to Executive Order 13572 of 
April 29, 2011, ``Blocking Property of Certain Persons With Respect to 
Human Rights Abuses in Syria''

AGENCY: Office of Foreign Assets Control, Treasury.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control 
(``OFAC'') is publishing the name of number of one entity whose 
property and interests in property are blocked pursuant to Executive 
Order 13572 of April 29, 2011, ``Blocking Property of Certain Persons 
with Respect to Human Rights Abuses in Syria.''

DATES: The designation by the Director of OFAC of the entity identified 
in this notice, pursuant to Executive Order 13572, is effective on 
February 16, 2012.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Assistant Director, Compliance 
Outreach & Implementation, Office of Foreign Assets Control, Department 
of the Treasury, 1500 Pennsylvania Avenue NW., (Treasury Annex), 
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 April 29, 2011, the President issued Executive Order 13572, 
``Blocking Property of Certain Persons with Respect to Human Rights 
Abuses in Syria,'' (the ``Order'') pursuant to, inter alia, the 
International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701-06). In the 
Order, the President expanded the scope of the national emergency 
declared in Executive Order 13338 of May 11, 2004.
    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 the Secretary of State: (1) To be 
responsible for or complicit in, or responsible for ordering, 
controlling, or otherwise directing, or to have participated in, the 
commission of human rights abuses in Syria, including those related to 
repression; (2) to be a senior official of an entity whose property and 
interests in property are blocked pursuant to this Order; (3) to have 
materially assisted, sponsored or provided financial, material, or 
technological support for, or goods or services in support of, the 
activities in subsection (b)(i) of Section 1 of the Order or any person 
whose property and interests in property are blocked pursuant to 
Executive Order 13338, Executive Order 13460, or this Order; or (4) to 
be owned or controlled by, or to have acted or purported to act for or 
on behalf of, directly or indirectly, any person whose property and 
interests in property are blocked pursuant to Executive Order 13460 or 
this Order.
    On February 16, 2012, the Director of OFAC, in consultation with 
the Department of State, designated, pursuant to one or more of the 
criteria set forth in subsection 1(b) of the Order, one entity whose 
property and interests in property are blocked pursuant to Executive 
Order 13572.
    The listing for the entity on OFAC's list of Specially Designated 
Nationals and Blocked Persons appears as follows:

Entity

    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 [SYRIA].

    Dated: February 16, 2012.
Barbara C. Hammerle,
Acting Director, Office of Foreign Assets Control.
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