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SIPDIS


DEPT FOR NP/CBM


E.O. 12958: DECL: 04/14/2013
TAGS: ETTC MNUC PARM PREL TU MTCRE
SUBJECT: MTAG 05-96: DEMARCHE ON IRAN'S MISSILE RELATED
PROCUREMENT EFFORTS (S)


REF: STATE 96184


(U) Classified by Economic Counselor Scot Marciel for reasons
1.5 (B) and (D).


(S) Econoff delivered reftel information on Iranian entities
involved in missile-related procurement programs to Tevfik
Mengu, Director General for Agreements at the Turkish Foreign
Trade Undersecretariat, on April 15. Mengu thanked Econoff
for the information, but said, as he has in response to
previous nonproliferation demarches, that his agency could
take preventive action only if trade transactions were found
to be in violation of international sanctions or domestic
law. In other cases of apparently legitimate trade by
suspect companies, Foreign Trade would be limited to passing
information to us on the activities of those companies.
PEARSON