Designation of Two Individuals Pursuant to Executive Order 13553, 82042 [2011-33349]

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• DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY
• Office of Foreign Assets Control

[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 250 (Thursday, December 29, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Page 82042]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-33349]



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DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY

Office of Foreign Assets Control


Designation of Two Individuals Pursuant to Executive Order 13553

SUB-AGENCY: Office of Foreign Assets Control.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control 
(``OFAC'') is publishing the names of two individuals newly-designated 
as persons whose property and interests in property are blocked 
pursuant to Executive Order 13553 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.''

DATES: The designation by the Director of OFAC of the two individuals 
identified in this notice, pursuant to Executive Order 13553 of 
September 28, 2010, is effective December 13, 2011.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Assistant Director, Sanctions 
Compliance and Evaluation, 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 (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 Executive Order 13553, 
``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 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 meet any of the criteria set forth in the Order.
    The Annex to the Order listed eight individuals whose property and 
interests in property are blocked pursuant to the Order.
    On December 13, 2011, the Director of OFAC, in consultation with or 
at the recommendation of the Secretary of State, designated, pursuant 
to one or more of the criteria set forth in subparagraphs (a)(ii)(A) 
through (a)(ii)(C) of Section 1 of the Order, two individuals whose 
property and interests in property are blocked, pursuant to the Order. 
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'' in their listings on OFAC's 
Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons List. See 31 CFR 
561.201(a)(5) note.
    The listing for these individuals is as follows:

 ARAGHI, Abdollah (a.k.a. ARAQI, Abdollah; a.k.a. ARAQI, 
Abdullah; a.k.a. ERAGHI, Abdollah; a.k.a. ERAQI, Abdollah); DOB 
1945; POB Iran; Lieutenant Commander, IRGC Ground Force; Deputy 
Commander, IRGC Ground Forces; Brigadier General; Former Commander, 
Greater Tehran's Mohammad Rasulollah IRGC; Former Chief, Greater 
Tehran Revolutionary Guards (individual) [IRGC] [IRAN-HR]
 FIROUZABADI, Hassan (a.k.a. AQAI-FIRUZABADI, Hassan; a.k.a. 
FIROOZABADI, Hassan; a.k.a. FIRUZABADI, Hasan); DOB 3 Feb 1951; POB 
Mashhad, Iran; Chief of Staff of the Joint Armed Forces of the 
Islamic Republic of Iran; Chairman of the Armed Forces' Joint Chiefs 
of Staff; Major General (individual) [IRAN-HR]


    Dated: December 13, 2011.
Adam J. Szubin,
Director, Office of Foreign Assets Control.
[FR Doc. 2011-33349 Filed 12-28-11; 8:45 am]
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