The State Department has imposed nonproliferation measures on twenty two foreign persons under the Iran, North Korea and Syria act, and eleven of them are Russian
The statute is named for Iran, North Korea and Syria. Half the names added under it last month are Russian.
The State Department has applied measures under section 3 of the Iran, North Korea, and Syria Nonproliferation Act against twenty two foreign persons. The measures took effect on 24 July. The notice recording them was filed for publication on Monday morning and publishes on 4 August, which leaves eleven days in which the list was in force and unpublished.
Eleven of the twenty two carry a Russian tag. They include three arms of the Russian state: the Russian Ground Forces, the Main Missile and Artillery Directorate, and the Ministry of Defense Directorate for Advanced Inter-Service Research and Special Projects. Each entity listing extends to any successor, sub-unit or subsidiary.
The rest of the list
Malaysia is second with five, four individuals and NS Global Logistics. Iran has two, the shipping and logistics company Kala Gozar Pars and one individual. There is one Syrian national, one North Korean, one Taiwanese national, and one Chinese company, Yixing Ruibang High Performance Carbon Fiber Products.
The act reaches transfers to or from Iran since January 1999, Syria since January 2005 and North Korea since January 2006, covering goods, services or technology on the Australia Group, Chemical Weapons Convention, Missile Technology Control Regime, Nuclear Suppliers Group and Wassenaar lists, or anything else with the potential to contribute materially to weapons of mass destruction or to cruise or ballistic missile systems. The notice names no transaction, no date and no counterparty for any listed person. It records that a determination was made.
What the measures are
There are four. No federal department or agency may procure anything from these persons or contract to. No assistance may be provided, and they may not participate in any American assistance programme. No government sales of anything on the United States Munitions List are permitted, and existing sales of defence articles, defence services or design and construction services under the Arms Export Control Act are terminated. And no new individual export licences will be granted, with existing ones suspended.
Each carries the same escape hatch, exercisable only by the Secretary of State.
The measures run two years from 24 July. The notice adds that they are independent of and in addition to any other sanctions already imposed by other federal agencies, so nothing here displaces a Treasury designation. It is signed by Christopher T. Yeaw, Assistant Secretary for the Bureau of Arms Control and Nonproliferation.
