(S) GERMAN RESPONSE - IRANIAN MISSILE PROGRAM'S

S E C R E T BERLIN 002162 SIPDIS SIPDIS STATE FOR ISN/MTR, NEA, EUR/AGS, AND EUR/PRA FRANKFURT FOR DHS/ICE E.O. 12958: DECL: 12/03/2017 TAGS: ETTC PARM PREL MTCRE KSCA GM IR AE SUBJECT: (S) GERMAN RESPONSE - IRANIAN MISSILE PROGRAM'S EFFORTS TO PROCURE GERMAN TEST AND MEASUREMENT EQUIPMENT REF: A. BERLIN 1932 ¶B. STATE 146193 ¶C. BERLIN 1733 ¶D. BERLIN 1138 ¶E. STATE 74940 Classified By: Global Affairs Counselor Donald R. Shemanski for reasons 1.4 (b) and (d). ¶1. (U) This message contains an action request. Please see para 3. ¶2. (S) In a December 3 meeting with Global Affairs officer, MFA Export Control Division Desk Officer Wiebke Wacker provided an interim response to ref B demarche, which reported that an agent for Iran's Shahid Hemmat Industrial Group (SHIG) had ordered a signal generator manufactured by the German firm Rohde and Schwarz from a UAE-based intermediary. Ref B points also raised concerns that the signal generator could be used in a missile program. Wacker said officials from the German Federal Office of Economics and Export Controls (BAFA) had contacted representatives of Rohde and Schwarz to sensitize them to the matter, but were unable to verify that the firm had been contacted by a UAE-based entity. Wacker inquired about the possibility of sharing the names of possible intermediary firms acting on behalf of SHIG. BAFA officials plan to use the list to ask Rohde and Schwarz representatives to verify that the firm has not been contacted by the UAE intermediaries. Otherwise, Wacker said, it would be difficult under German law for BAFA to investigate the matter further. ¶3. (SBU) ACTION REQUEST: Post seeks Department's guidance to respond to the German request. TIMKEN JR