The Biden administration has deployed eleven businesses in Pakistan and the UAE to promote the South Asian country’s nuclear program.
It stated that ten Pakistani and UAE-based companies posed unacceptable risks of using or diverting materials for Pakistan’s nuclear programs, or are involved in Pakistan’s “nuclear activities and missile proliferation-related activities.”
The ten companies are part of a total of 24 that have been added to an export control list for assisting Russia’s military or defense industrial base or supplying an Iranian electronics company.
According to the US Commerce Department, the entities situated in Latvia, Pakistan, Russia, Singapore, and Switzerland were added to the list due to US national security and foreign policy concerns.
The foreign companies include Fiber Optic Solutions in Latvia and Russia’s AO Kraftway Corporation PSC, Russian AO Scientific Research Center for Electronic Computing, LLC Fibersense, and Scientific Production Company Optolin, AO PKK Milandr; Milandr EK OOO; Milandr ICC JSC; Milur IS, OOO; (OOO) Microelectronic Production Complex (MPK) Milandr; and Ruselectronics JSC and Swiss based Milur SA.
The Biden administration also designated four trading and supply companies in Singapore for supplying or attempting to supply an Iranian electronics company, Pardazan System Namad Arman (PASNA).
