2012-680. Actions Taken Pursuant to Executive Order 13382 Related to the Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines (IRISL)

AGENCY:

Office of Foreign Assets Control, Treasury.

ACTION:

Notice.

SUMMARY:

The Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) is publishing on OFAC's list of Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons the names of ten newly-designated entities, along with one individual, 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, pursuant to Executive Order 13382, of the ten entities and one individual identified in this notice was effective on December 20, 2011.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Assistant Director, Sanctions Compliance & Evaluation, tel.: [phone], Office of Foreign Assets Control; Assistant Director for Policy, tel.: [phone], Office of Foreign Assets Control; or Chief Counsel (Foreign Assets Control), tel.: [phone], Office of the General Counsel, Department of the Treasury, Washington, DC 20220.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

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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.: [phone].

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, any person whose property and interests in property are blocked pursuant to the Order.

On December 20, 2011, the Director of OFAC, in consultation with the Departments of State, Justice, and other relevant agencies, designated ten entities and one individual whose property and interests in property are blocked pursuant to Executive Order 13382.

The list of additional designees is as follows:

BIIS MARITIME LIMITED, 147/1 St. Lucia Street Valletta, VLT 1185, Malta; c/o Irano Hind Shipping Company, PO Box 15875, Mehrshad Street, Sadaghat Street, Opposite of Park Mellat, Vali-e-Asr Ave., Tehran, Iran; Business Registration Document # C31530 (Malta); Web site www.iranohind.com [NPWMD]

ISIM AMIN LIMITED, 147/1 St. Lucia Street, Valletta, VLT 1185, Malta; Business Registration Document # C40069 (Malta) [NPWMD]

ISIM ATR LIMITED, c/o Irano Hind Shipping Company, PO Box 15875, Mehrshad Street, Sadaghat Street, Opposite of Park Mellat, Vali-e-Asr Ave., Tehran, Iran; 147/1 St. Lucia Street, Valletta VLT 1185, Malta; Business Registration Document # C34477 (Malta); Web site www.iranohind.com [NPWMD]

ISIM OLIVE LIMITED, 147/1 St. Lucia Street, Valletta, VLT 1185, Malta; Business Registration Document # C34479 (Malta) [NPWMD]

ISIM SAT LIMITED, 147/1 St. Lucia Street, Valletta, VLT 1185, Malta; Business Registration Document # C34476 (Malta) [NPWMD]

ISIM SEA CHARIOT LIMITED, 147/1 St. Lucia Street, Valletta, VLT 1185, Malta; Business Registration Document # C45153 (Malta) [NPWMD]

ISIM SEA CRESCENT LIMITED, 147/1 St. Lucia Street, Valletta, VLT 1185, Malta; Business Registration Document # C45152 (Malta) [NPWMD]

ISIM SININ LIMITED, 147/1 St. Lucia Street, Valletta, VLT 1185, Malta; c/o Irano Hind Shipping Company, PO Box 15875, Mehrshad Street, Sadaghat Street, Opposite of Park Mellat, Vali-e-Asr Ave., Tehran, Iran; Business Registration Document # C37437 (Malta); Web site www.iranohind.com [NPWMD]

ISIM TAJ MAHAL LIMITED, 147/1 St. Lucia Street, Valletta, VLT 1185, Malta; Business Registration Document # C41660 (Malta) [NPWMD]

ISIM TOUR LIMITED, 147/1 St. Lucia Street, Valletta, VLT 1185, Malta; Business Registration Document # C34478 (Malta) [NPWMD]

KHALILI, Jamshid, Third Floor, Number 143, Dr. Lavasani Avenue, Farmanieh Avenue, Tehran, Iran; DOB 23 Sep 1957; nationality Iran; Passport R1451357 (Iran) (individual) [NPWMD]

Dated: January 4, 2012.

Adam J. Szubin,

Director, Office of Foreign Assets Control.