BIS Adds New Entities, Addresses to Entity List for Supplying Iran
The Bureau of Industry and Security added 29 entities to the Entity List, including three addresses, for either helping to illegally supply U.S.-origin items to Iran or for their ties to Iranian procurement networks, BIS said in a final rule released and effective Oct. 8. BIS said the entities supplied or diverted aircraft parts, drone components, electronic items and other products to Iran, including to Iranian companies already on the Entity List or the Treasury Department’s Specially Designated Nationals List.
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The rule added 19 new entries in China, nine in Turkey and one in the United Arab Emirates. They will be subject to license requirements for all items subject to the Export Administration Regulations, and licenses will be reviewed under a presumption of denial.
The rule is the first Entity List action since BIS released its Affiliates Rule on Sept. 29. That rule expanded the number of companies subject to stringent BIS license requirements by making any majority-owned affiliate subject to the same export restrictions as their owner on either the Entity List, Military End-User List or under certain financial sanctions (see 2510030041), although the Affiliates Rule doesn’t apply to address-only additions to the Entity List.
All of the Entity List entries added Oct. 8 have been involved in illegally supplying U.S.-export-controlled items to Iran, BIS said, including drone parts to Iranian front companies already sanctioned by the U.S., including those owned by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ Qods Force. Others were added for transshipping U.S.-origin aircraft components into Iran, diverting certain chemical manufacturing equipment classified under Export Control Classification Number 2B350, supplying electronic components to Iran, and more.
BIS also added three Chinese addresses to the Entity List for their ties to the procurement network of Emily Liu, who was sanctioned by the U.S. and indicted last year for supplying dual-use technology components to companies with ties to Iran’s military (see 2402010076). The agency said the network has “provided and/or attempted to provide support” for Iran’s Shiraz Electronics Industries, an entity controlled by Iran's defense ministry that produces equipment for the Iranian military (see 2510010039).
BIS said licenses for exports to those addresses will be required for all items on the Commerce Control List “and EAR99 items listed in supplement no. 7 to part 746 of the EAR.”
All exports that now require a license as a result of this rule but were aboard a carrier to a port as of Oct. 8 may proceed to their destinations under the previous eligibility as long as the items are exported no later than Nov. 7, BIS said.