[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 192 (Tuesday, October 5, 2010)]
[Notices]
[Pages 61572-61573]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-24861]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY

Office of Foreign Assets Control


Additional Identifying Information Associated With Persons Whose 
Property and Interests in Property Are Blocked Pursuant to the 
Executive Order 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''

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 additional identifying information associated 
with the eight individuals listed in the Annex to the Executive Order 
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,'' whose property and interests in 
property are therefore blocked.

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 September 28, 2010, the President issued the Executive Order 
``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

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International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701-06) (IEEPA) 
and the Comprehensive Iran Sanctions, Accountability, and Divestment 
Act of 2010 (Pub. L. 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 satisfy certain criteria set forth in the Order.
    The Annex to the Order lists eight individuals whose property and 
interests in property are blocked pursuant to the Order. OFAC is 
publishing additional identifying information associated with those 
individuals. As noted in the listings below, the property and interests 
in property of one of those individuals also is blocked pursuant to 
another OFAC sanctions program. Agents or affiliates of Iran's Islamic 
Revolutionary Guard Corps whose property and interests in property are 
blocked pursuant to IEEPA include a reference to the ``IRGC'' at the 
end of their listings on OFAC's Specially Designated Nationals and 
Blocked Persons List (``SDN'' list). See 31 CFR 561.201(a)(5) note.
    The listings for those individuals on the SDN list now appear as 
follows:

Individuals

1. JAFARI, Mohammad Ali (a.k.a. JAFARI, Ali; a.k.a. JA'FARI, Mohammad 
Ali; a.k.a. JAFARI-NAJAFABADI, Mohammad Ali; a.k.a. ``JA'FARI, Aziz''), 
c/o IRGC, Tehran, Iran; DOB 1 Sep 1957; POB Yazd, Iran; Commander-in-
Chief, Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps; Commander, Islamic 
Revolutionary Guard Corps; Major General; Brigadier Commander 
(individual) [NPWMD] [IRGC] [IRAN-HR].
2. MAHSOULI, Sadeq (a.k.a. MAHSULI, Sadeq); DOB 1959; POB Orumieh, 
Iran; Minister of Welfare and Social Security; Former Minister of the 
Interior and Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces for Law 
Enforcement (individual) [IRAN-HR].
3. MOHSENI-EJEI, Qolam-Hossein (a.k.a. MOHSENI EJEI, Gholam Hossein); 
DOB circa 1956; POB Ejiyeh, Iran; Prosecutor-General of Iran; 
Hojjatoleslam; Former Minister of Intelligence (individual) [IRAN-HR].
4. MORTAZAVI, Saeed (a.k.a. MORTAZAVI, Sa'id); DOB 1967; POB Meibod, 
Yazd, Iran; Head, Iranian Anti-Smuggling Task Force; Former Prosecutor-
General of Tehran (individual) [IRAN-HR].
5. MOSLEHI, Heydar (a.k.a. MOSLEHI, Heidar), Ministry of Intelligence, 
Second Negarestan Street, Pasdaran Avenue, Tehran, Iran; DOB 1956; POB 
Isfahan, Iran; Minister of Intelligence; Hojjatoleslam (individual) 
[IRAN-HR].
6. NAJJAR, Mostafa Mohammad; DOB 1956; POB Tehran, Iran; Minister of 
the Interior; Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces for Law 
Enforcement (individual) [IRAN-HR].
7. RADAN, Ahmad-Reza; DOB 1963; alt. DOB 1964; POB Isfahan, Iran; 
Deputy Chief, National Police; Deputy Police Chief; Brigadier General 
(individual) [IRAN-HR].
8. TAEB, Hossein (a.k.a. TAEB, Hassan; a.k.a. TAEB, Hosein; a.k.a. 
TAEB, Hussayn); DOB 1963; POB Tehran, Iran; Deputy Commander for 
Intelligence, Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps; Hojjatoleslam; Former 
Commander of the Basij Forces (individual) [IRGC] [IRAN-HR].

    Dated: September 29, 2010.
Adam Szubin,
Director, Office of Foreign Assets Control.
[FR Doc. 2010-24861 Filed 10-4-10; 8:45 am]
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