IRAN: NAMES PROPOSED BY UK AND FRANCE FOR EU ASSET

C O N F I D E N T I A L LONDON 000305 SIPDIS NOFORN SIPDIS E.O. 12958: DECL: 01/31/2018 TAGS: PREL KPRP PGOV ETTC IR UK SUBJECT: IRAN: NAMES PROPOSED BY UK AND FRANCE FOR EU ASSET FREEZE AND TRAVEL BANS REF: LONDON 272 Classified By: Political Minister Counselor Maura Connelly for reasons 1.4 (b) and (d) ¶1. (C/NF) Providing further details of UK efforts to obtain autonomous EU sanctions against Iran (see ref),the Foreign and Commonwealth Office on January 30 gave London Iran Watcher (Poloff) a list of 18 entities and 14 individuals that the FCO says the UK and France have jointly proposed to EU governments be added to existing EU asset freezes and travel bans. ¶2. (C/NF) Isabella McCrae and Elizabeth Rickett of FCO's CounterProliferation Department provided the list for information only, and on condition USG not discuss or otherwise engage with EU governments or the EU on any specific names or entities on the list. The list is as follows: UK / French proposals for the EU a) Legal persons, entities and bodies Armed Forces Geographical Organization Iran Electronic Industries (IEI) Ministry of Defence and Armed Forces Logistics (MODAFL) Ministry of Defence Logistics Export (MODLEX) State Purchasing Organization (SPO) IRGC Air Force Khatem-ol Anbiya Construction Organization 3M Mizan machinery Manufacturing Abzar Boresh Kaveh Co. (ABK Co. Kaveh Cutting Tools Co.) Electro Sanam Company (E.S.Co.) Ettehad Technical Group Industrial Factories of Precision-Machinery (IFP) (Instrumentation Factories Plant, Fajr Industrial Group) Joza Industrial Co. Khorasan Metallurgy Industries Malek Ashtar University Mechanic Industries Group Parchin Chemical Industries Pishgam (Pioneer) Energy Industries Company b) Natural persons IRGC Brigadier-General Mostafa Mohammad Najjar IRGC Brigadier-General Ahmad Vahidi Rear Admiral Mohammad Shafi'I Rudsari Brigadier-General Mohammad Naderi IRGC Brigadier-General Seyyed Mahdi Farahi Dr. Mohammad Eslami Ebrahim Mahmudzadeh IRGC Brigadier-General Ali Shamshiri Brigadier-General Beik Mohammadlu Engineer Mojtaba Haeri IRGC Brigadier-General Javad Darvish-Vand Mohammad Ali Jafari, IRGC Mahmood Jannatian Anis Nacache ¶3. (C/NF) Rickett said the UK and France plan to discuss these names at an EU experts meeting February 6, but that the UK expects these names can only be added after a third resolution is adopted by the UNSCR. Rickett said the exact sequence and routing of these proposed names through EU mechanisms prior to ministerial consideration remains "hazy." (Embassy comment. Rickett's comments linked EU approval of this list to prior passage of a third UNSCR more explicitly than other FCO officials, who had suggested (ref) this expansion of existing EU travel and assets lists might occur prior to UNSC adoption of a third resolution. End comment.) Visit London's Classified Website: http://www.state.sgov.gov/p/eur/london/index. cfm TUTTLE