E9-19076. Update to Identifying Information Associated With Two Entities Previously Designated Pursuant to Executive Order 13382

AGENCY:

Office of Foreign Assets Control, Treasury.

ACTION:

Notice.

SUMMARY:

The Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) has made changes to the identifying information associated with the following two entities, previously designated pursuant to Executive Order 13382 of June 28, 2005, “Blocking Property of Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferators and Their Supporters.”

FIRST PERSIA EQUITY FUND (a.k.a. FIRST PERSIAN EQUITY FUND; a.k.a. FPEF), Rafi Alley, Vali Asr Avenue, Nader Alley, P.O. Box 15875-3898, Tehran 15116, Iran; Walker House, 87 Mary Street, George Town, Grand Cayman KY1-9002, Cayman Islands; Clifton House, 75 Fort Street, P.O. Box 190, Grand Cayman KY1-1104, Cayman Islands [NPWMD] [Exhibit 1]

MEHR CAYMAN LTD., Walker House, 87 Mary Street, George Town, Grand Cayman KY1-9002, Cayman Islands [NPWMD]

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Assistant Director, Compliance Outreach & Implementation Office of Foreign Assets Control, Department of the Treasury, Washington, DC 20220, tel.: [phone].

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.: [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 an 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.

The listings for these two entities now appear as:

FIRST PERSIA EQUITY FUND (a.k.a. FIRST PERSIAN EQUITY FUND; a.k.a. FPEF), Rafi Alley, Vali Asr Avenue, Nader Alley, P.O. Box 15875-3898, Tehran 15116, Iran; Commercial Registry Number 188924 (Cayman Islands); Cayman Islands [NPWMD]

MEHR CAYMAN LTD., Commercial Registry Number 188926 (Cayman Islands); Cayman Islands [NPWMD]

Dated: July 20, 2009.

Adam J. Szubin,

Director, Office of Foreign Assets Control.