[Federal Register: October 28, 2008 (Volume 73, Number 209)]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY

Office of Foreign Assets Control

 
Additional Designation of Entities Pursuant to Executive Order 
13382

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 names of four newly-designated entities 
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 of the four entities 
identified in this notice pursuant to Executive Order 13382 is 
effective on October 22, 2008.

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

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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 October 22, 2008, the Director of OFAC, in consultation with the 
Departments of State, Justice, and other relevant agencies, designated 
four entities whose property and interests in property are blocked 
pursuant to Executive Order 13382.
    The list of additional designees is as follows:
    1. EXPORT DEVELOPMENT BANK OF IRAN (a.k.a. BANK TOSEH SADERAT IRAN; 
a.k.a. BANK TOWSEEH SADERAT IRAN; a.k.a. EDBI), Export Development 
Building, Next to the 15th Alley, Bokharest Street, Argentina Square, 
Tehran, Iran; Tose'e Tower, Corner of 15th St., Ahmad Qasir Ave., 
Argentine Square, Tehran, Iran; No. 129, 21's Khaled Eslamboli, No. 1 
Building, Tehran, Iran; C.R. No. 86936 (Iran); all branches worldwide 
[NPWMD].
    2. EDBI STOCK BROKERAGE COMPANY, Tehran, Iran [NPWMD].
    3. EDBI EXCHANGE COMPANY, Tehran, Iran [NPWMD].
    4. BANCO INTERNACIONAL DE DESARROLLO, C.A., Urb. El Rosal, Avenida 
Francisco de Miranda, Edificio Dozsa, Piso 8, Caracas, C.P. 1060, 
Venezuela; RIF  J294640109 (Venezuela); SWIFT/BIC IDUNVECA; 
[NPWMD].

    Dated: October 22, 2008.
Barbara Hammerle,
Acting Director, Office of Foreign Assets Control.
[FR Doc. E8-25599 Filed 10-27-08; 8:45 am]

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