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Iran Sanctions

Kenneth Katzman

Specialist in Middle Eastern Affairs

December 7, 2012

CRS Report for Congress

Prepared for Members and Committees of Congress:

Entities Sanctioned Under U.N. Resolutions and U.S. Laws and Executive Orders

(Persons listed are identified by the positions they held when designated; some have since changed.)

Entities Named for Sanctions Under Resolution 1737

Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEIO) Mesbah Energy Company (Arak supplier)

Kalaye Electric (Natanz supplier))

Pars Trash Company (centrifuge program) Farayand Technique (centrifuge program)

Defense Industries Organization (DIO)

7th of Tir (DIO subordinate)

Shahid Hemmat Industrial Group (SHIG)—missile program

Shahid Bagheri Industrial Group (SBIG)—missile program

Fajr Industrial Group (missile program)

Mohammad Qanadi, AEIO Vice President

Behman Asgarpour (Arak manager)

Ehsan Monajemi (Natanz construction manager)

Jafar Mohammadi (Adviser to AEIO)

Gen. Hosein Salimi (Commander, IRGC Air Force)

Dawood Agha Jani (Natanz official)

Ali Hajinia Leilabadi (director of Mesbah Energy)

Lt. Gen. Mohammad Mehdi Nejad Nouri (Malak Ashtar University of Defence Technology rector)

Bahmanyar Morteza Bahmanyar (AIO official)

Reza Gholi Esmaeli (AIO official)

Ahmad Vahid Dastjerdi (head of Aerospace Industries Org., AIO)

Maj. Gen. Yahya Rahim Safavi (Commander in Chief, IRGC)

Entities/Persons Added by Resolution 1747

Ammunition and Metallurgy Industries Group (controls 7th of Tir)

Parchin Chemical Industries (branch of DIO)

Karaj Nuclear Research Center

Novin Energy Company

Cruise Missile Industry Group

Sanam Industrial Group (subordinate to AIO)

Ya Mahdi Industries Group

Kavoshyar Company (subsidiary of AEIO)

Sho’a Aviation (produces IRGC light aircraft for asymmetric warfare)

Bank Sepah (funds AIO and subordinate entities)

Esfahan Nuclear Fuel Research and Production Center and Esfahan Nuclear Technology Center

Qods Aeronautics Industries (produces UAV’s, para-gliders for IRGC asymmetric warfare)

Pars Aviation Services Company (maintains IRGC Air Force equipment)

Gen. Mohammad Baqr Zolqadr (IRGC officer serving as deputy Interior Minister

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Brig. Gen. Qasem Soleimani (Qods Force commander)

Fereidoun Abbasi-Davani (senior defense scientist)

Mohasen Fakrizadeh-Mahabai (defense scientist)

Seyed Jaber Safdari (Natanz manager)

Mohsen Hojati (head of Fajr Industrial Group)

Ahmad Derakshandeh (head of Bank Sepah)

Brig. Gen. Mohammad Reza Zahedi (IRGC ground forces commander)

Amir Rahimi (head of Esfahan nuclear facilities)

Mehrdada Akhlaghi Ketabachi (head of SBIG)

Naser Maleki (head of SHIG)

Brig. Gen. Morteza Reza’i (Deputy commander-in-chief, IRGC)

Vice Admiral Ali Akbar Ahmadiyan (chief of IRGC Joint Staff)

Brig. Gen. Mohammad Hejazi (Basij commander)

Entities Added by Resolution 1803

Thirteen Iranians named in Annex 1 to Resolution 1803; all reputedly involved in various aspects of nuclear program.

Bans travel for five named Iranians.

Electro Sanam Co.

Abzar Boresh Kaveh Co. (centrifuge production)

Barzaganin Tejaral Tavanmad Saccal

Jabber Ibn Hayan

Khorasan Metallurgy Industries

Niru Battery Manufacturing Co. (Makes batteries for Iranian military and missile systems)

Ettehad Technical Group (AIO front co.)

Industrial Factories of Precision

Joza Industrial Co.

Pshgam (Pioneer) Energy Industries

Tamas Co. (involved in uranium enrichment)

Safety Equipment Procurement (AIO front, involved in missiles)

Entities Added by Resolution 1929

Over 40 entities added; makes mandatory a previously nonbinding travel ban on most named Iranians of previous

resolutions. Adds one individual banned for travel—AEIO head Javad Rahiqi

Amin Industrial Complex

Armament Industries Group

Defense Technology and Science Research Center (owned or controlled by Ministry of Defense)…….

Doostan International Company

Farasakht Industries

First East Export Bank, PLC (only bank added by Resolution 1929)

Kaveh Cutting Tools Company

M. Babaie Industries

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Malek Ashtar University (subordinate of Defense Technology and Science Research Center, above)

Ministry of Defense Logistics Export (sells Iranian made arms to customers worldwide)

Mizan Machinery Manufacturing

Modern Industries Technique Company

Nuclear Research Center for Agriculture and Medicine (research component of the AEIO)

Pejman Industrial Services Corp.

Sabalan Company

Sahand Aluminum Parts Industrial Company

Shahid Karrazi Industries

Shahid Sattari Industries

Shahid Sayyade Shirazi Industries (acts on behalf of the DIO)

Special Industries Group (another subordinate of DIO)

Tiz Pars (cover name for SHIG)

Yazd Metallurgy Industries

The following are Revolutionary Guard affiliated firms, several are subsidiaries of Khatam ol-Anbiya, the main Guard

construction affiliate:

Fater Institute

Garaghe Sazendegi Ghaem

Gorb Karbala

Gorb Nooh

Hara Company

Imensazan Consultant Engineers Institute

Khatam ol-Anbiya

Makin

Omran Sahel

Oriental Oil Kish

Rah Sahel

Rahab Engineering Institute

Sahel Consultant Engineers

Sepanir

Sepasad Engineering Company

The following are entities owned or controlled by Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines (IRISL):

Irano Hind Shipping Company

IRISL Benelux

South Shipping Line Iran

Entities Designated Under U.S. Executive Order 13382

(many designations coincident with designations under U.N. resolutions)

Entity Date Named

Shahid Hemmat Industrial Group (Iran) June 2005, September 2007

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Shahid Bakeri Industrial Group (Iran) June 2005, February 2009

Atomic Energy Organization of Iran June 2005

Novin Energy Company (Iran) January 2006

Mesbah Energy Company (Iran) January 2006

Four Chinese entities: Beijing Alite Technologies, LIMMT Economic and Trading

Company, China Great Wall Industry Corp, and China National Precision

Machinery Import/Export Corp.

June 2006

Sanam Industrial Group (Iran) July 2006

Ya Mahdi Industries Group (Iran) July 2006

Bank Sepah (Iran) January 2007

Defense Industries Organization (Iran) March 2007

June 2007

Pars Trash (Iran, nuclear program)

Farayand Technique (Iran, nuclear program)

Fajr Industries Group (Iran, missile program)

Mizan Machine Manufacturing Group (Iran, missile prog.)

Aerospace Industries Organization (AIO) (Iran) September 2007

Korea Mining and Development Corp. (N. Korea) September 2007

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Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC)

Ministry of Defense and Armed Forces Logistics

Bank Melli (Iran’s largest bank, widely used by Guard); Bank Melli Iran Zao

(Moscow); Melli Bank PC (U.K.)

Bank Kargoshaee

Arian Bank (joint venture between Melli and Bank Saderat). Based in Afghanistan

Bank Mellat (provides banking services to Iran’s nuclear sector); Mellat Bank SB

CJSC (Armenia). Reportedly has $1.4 billion in assets in UAE

Persia International Bank PLC (U.K.)

Khatam ol Anbiya Gharargah Sazendegi Nooh (main IRGC construction and

contracting arm, with $7 billion in oil, gas deals)

Oriental Oil Kish (Iranian oil exploration firm)

Ghorb Karbala; Ghorb Nooh (synonymous with Khatam ol Anbiya)

Sepasad Engineering Company (Guard construction affiliate)

Omran Sahel (Guard construction affiliate)

Sahel Consultant Engineering (Guard construction affiliate)

Hara Company

Gharargahe Sazandegi Ghaem

Bahmanyar Morteza Bahmanyar (AIO, Iran missile official, see above under

Resolution 1737)

Ahmad Vahid Dastjerdi (AIO head, Iran missile program)

Reza Gholi Esmaeli (AIO, see under Resolution 1737)

Morteza Reza’i (deputy commander, IRGC) See also Resolution 1747

Mohammad Hejazi (Basij commander). Also, Resolution 1747

Ali Akbar Ahmadian (Chief of IRGC Joint Staff). Resolution 1747

Hosein Salimi (IRGC Air Force commander). Resolution 1737

Qasem Soleimani (Qods Force commander). Resolution 1747

October 21, 2007

Future Bank (Bahrain-based but allegedly controlled by Bank Melli) March 12, 2008

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Entities sanctioned on July 8, 2008:

Yahya Rahim Safavi (former IRGC Commander in Chief);

Mohsen Fakrizadeh-Mahabadi (senior Defense Ministry scientist)

Dawood Agha-Jani (head of Natanz enrichment site)

Mohsen Hojati (head of Fajr Industries, involved in missile program)

Mehrdada Akhlaghi Ketabachi (heads Shahid Bakeri Industrial Group)

Naser Maliki (heads Shahid Hemmat Industrial Group)

Tamas Company (involved in uranium enrichment)

Shahid Sattari Industries (makes equipment for Shahid Bakeri)

7th of Tir (involved in developing centrifuge technology)

Ammunition and Metallurgy Industries Group (partner of 7th of Tir)

Parchin Chemical Industries (deals in chemicals used in ballistic missile programs)

August 12, 2008:

Karaj Nuclear Research Center

Esfahan Nuclear Fuel Research and Production Center (NFRPC)

Jabber Ibn Hayyan (reports to Atomic Energy Org. of Iran, AEIO)

Safety Equipment Procurement Company

Joza Industrial Company (front company for Shahid Hemmat Industrial Group, SHIG)

September 10, 2008:

Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines (IRISL) and 18 affiliates, including Val Fajr 8; Kazar; Irinvestship; Shipping

Computer Services; Iran o Misr Shipping; Iran o Hind; IRISL Marine Services; Iriatal Shipping; South Shipping; IRISL

Multimodal; Oasis; IRISL Europe; IRISL Benelux; IRISL China; Asia Marine Network; CISCO Shipping; and IRISL Malta

September 17, 2008:

Firms affiliated to the Ministry of Defense, including Armament Industries Group; Farasakht Industries; Iran Aircraft

Manufacturing Industrial Co.; Iran Communications Industries; Iran Electronics Industries; and Shiraz Electronics

Industries

October 22, 2008

Export Development Bank of Iran. Provides financial services to Iran’s Ministry of Defense and Armed Forces

Logistics

Banco Internacional de Desarollo, C.A., Venezuelan-based Iranian bank, sanctioned as an affiliate of the Export

Development Bank.

Assa Corporation (alleged front for Bank Melli involved in managing property in

New York City on behalf of Iran)

December 17, 2008

March 3, 2009

11 Entities Tied to Bank Melli: Bank Melli Iran Investment (BMIIC); Bank Melli Printing and Publishing; Melli Investment

Holding; Mehr Cayman Ltd.; Cement Investment and Development; Mazandaran Cement Co.; Shomal Cement;

Mazandaran Textile; Melli Agrochemical; First Persian Equity Fund; BMIIC Intel. General Trading

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February 10, 2010:

IRGC General Rostam Qasemi, head of Khatem ol-Anbiya Construction Headquarters (key corporate arm of the

IRGC)

Fater Engineering Institute (linked to Khatem ol-Anbiya)

Imensazen Consultant Engineers Institute (linked to Khatem ol-Anbiya)

Makin Institute (linked to Khatem ol-Anbiya)

Rahab Institute (linked to Khatem on-Anbiya)

Entities sanctioned on June 16, 2010

- Post Bank of Iran

- IRGC Air Force

- IRGC Missile Command

- Rah Sahel and Sepanir Oil and Gas Engineering (for ties to Khatem ol-Anibya IRGC construction affiliate)

- Mohammad Ali Jafari—IRGC Commander-in-Chief since September 2007

- Mohammad Reza Naqdi—Head of the IRGC’s Basij militia force that suppresses dissent (since October 2009)

- Ahmad Vahedi—Defense Minister

- Javedan Mehr Toos, Javad Karimi Sabet (procurement brokers or atomic energy managers)

- Naval Defense Missile Industry Group (controlled by the Aircraft Industries Org that manages Iran’s missile

programs)

- Five front companies for IRISL: Hafiz Darya Shipping Co.; Soroush Sarzamin Asatir Ship Management Co.; Safiran

Payam Darya; and Hong Kong-based Seibow Limited and Seibow Logistics.

Also identified on June 16 were 27 vessels linked to IRISKL and 71 new names of already designated IRISL ships.

Several Iranian entities were also designated as owned or controlled by Iran for purposes of the ban on U.S. trade

with Iran.

Entities sanctioned on November 30, 2010

- Pearl Energy Company (formed by First East Export Bank, a subsidiary of Bank Mellat

- Pearl Energy Services, SA

- Ali Afzali (high official of First East Export Bank)

- IRISL front companies: Ashtead Shipping, Byfleet Shipping, Cobham Shipping, Dorking Shipping, Effingham Shipping,

Farnham Shipping, Gomshall Shipping, and Horsham Shipping (all located in the Isle of Man).

- IRISL and affiliate officials: Mohammad Hosein Dajmar, Gholamhossein Golpavar, Hassan Jalil Zadeh, and Mohammad

Haji Pajand.

Entities sanctioned on December 21, 2010:

- Bonyad (foundation) Taavon Sepah, for providing services to the IRGC

- Ansar Bank (for providing financial services to the IRGC)

- Mehr Bank (same justification as above)

- Moallem Insurance Company (for providing marine insurance to IRISL, Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines)

- Bank of Industry and Mine (BIM) May 17, 2011

- Tidewater Middle East Company

- Iran Air

- Mehr-e Eqtesad Iranian Investment Co.

June 23, 2011

- Bank Tejarat January 23, 2012

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- Trade Capital Bank (Belarus-based but controlled by Tejarat)

March 28, 2012:

Iran Maritime Industrial Company SADRA (owned by IRGC engineering firm Khatem-ol-Anbiya, has offices in

Venezuela)

Deep Offshore Technology PJS (subsidiary of the above)

Malship Shipping Agency and Modality Ltd (both Malta-based affiliates of IRISL)

Seyed Alaeddin Sadat Rasool (IRISL legal adviser)

Ali Ezati (IRISL strategic planning and public affairs manager)

July 12, 2012:

- Electronic Components Industries Co. (ECI) and Information Systems Iran (ISIRAN)

- Advanced Information and Communication Technology Center (AICTC) and Hamid Reza Rabiee (software engineer

for AICTC)

- Digital Medial Lab (DML) and Value Laboratory (owned or controlled by Rabiee or AICTC)

- Ministry of Defense Logistics Export (MODLEX)

Daniel Frosh (Austria) and International General Resourcing FZE)—person and his UAE-based firm allegedly supply

Iran’s missile industry.

November 8, 2012:

- National Iranian Oil Company

-Tehran Gostaresh, company owned by Bonyad Taavon Sepah

- Imam Hossein University, owned by IRGC

-Baghyatollah Medical Sciences University, owned by IRGC or providing services to it.

Iran-Related Entities Sanctioned Under Executive Order 13224 (Terrorism Entities)

Martyr’s Foundation (Bonyad Shahid), a major Iranian foundation (bonyad)—for

providing financial support to Hezbollah and PIJ

Goodwill Charitable Organization, a Martyr’s Foundation office in Dearborn,

Michigan

Al Qard Al Hassan—part of Hezbollah’s financial infrastructure (and associated

with previously designated Hezbollah entities Husayn al-Shami, Bayt al-Mal, and

Yousser Company for Finance and Investment.

Qasem Aliq—Hezbollah official, director of Martyr’s Foundation Lebanon branch,

and head of Jihad al-Bina, a previously designated Lebanese construction company

run by Hezbollah.

Ahmad al-Shami—financial liaison between Hezbollah in Lebanon and Martyf’s

Foundation chapter in Michigan

July 25, 2007

Qods Force October 21, 2007

Bank Saderat (allegedly used to funnel Iranian money to Hezbollah, Hamas, PIJ, and

other Iranian supported terrorist groups)

October 21, 2007

Al Qaeda Operatives in Iran: Saad bin Laden; Mustafa Hamid; Muhammad Rab’a al-

Bahtiyti; Alis Saleh Husain

January 16, 2009

Qods Force senior officers: Hushang Allahdad, Hossein Musavi,Hasan Mortezavi,

and Mohammad Reza Zahedi

August 3, 2010

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Iranian Committee for the Reconstruction of Lebanon, and its director Hesam

Khoshnevis, for supporting Lebanese Hizballah

August 3, 2010

Imam Khomeini Relief Committee Lebanon branch, and its director Ali Zuraik, for

providing support to Hizballah

August 3, 2010

Razi Musavi, a Syrian based Iranian official allegedly providing support to Hizballah August 3, 2010

Liner Transport Kish (for providing shipping services to transport weapons to

Lebanese Hizballah)

December 21, 2010

For alleged plot against Saudi Ambassador to the U.S.:

Qasem Soleimani (Qods Force commander)

Hamid Abdollahi (Qods force)

Abdul Reza Shahlai (Qods Force)

Ali Gholam Shakuri (Qods Force)

Manssor Arbabsiar (alleged plotter)

October 11, 2011

Mahan Air (for transportation services to Qods Force) October 12, 2011

Ministry of Intelligence and Security of Iran (MOIS) February 16, 2012

Yas Air (successor to Pars Air)

Behineh Air (Iranian trading company)

Ali Abbas Usman Jega (Nigerian shipping agent)

Qods Force officers: Esmail Ghani, Sayyid Ali Tabatabaei, and Hosein Aghajani

Entities and persons sanctioned for weapons shipments to Syria and an October

2011 shipment bound for Gambia, intercepted in Nigeria.

March 27, 2012

Entities Sanctioned Under the Iran North Korea Syria Non-Proliferation Act or Executive Order

12938

The designations are under the Iran, North Korea, Syria Non-Proliferation Act (INKSNA) unless specified. These

designations expire after two years, unless re-designated

Baltic State Technical University and Glavkosmos, both of Russia July 30, 1998 (E.O. 12938).

Both removed in 2010—Baltic

on January 29, 2010, and

Glavkosmos on March 4, 2010

D. Mendeleyev University of Chemical Technology of Russia and Moscow Aviation

Institute

January 8, 1999 (E.O. 12938).

Both removed on May 21, 2010

Norinco (China). For alleged missile technology sale to Iran. May 2003

Taiwan Foreign Trade General Corporation (Taiwan) July 4, 2003

Tula Instrument Design Bureau (Russia). For alleged sales of laser-guided artillery

shells to Iran.

September 17, 2003 (also

designated under Executive

Order 12938), removed May

21, 2010

13 entities sanctioned including companies from Russia, China, Belarus, Macedonia,

North Korea, UAE, and Taiwan.

April 7, 2004

14 entities from China, North Korea, Belarus, India (two nuclear scientists, Dr.

Surendar and Dr. Y.S.R. Prasad), Russia, Spain, and Ukraine.

September 29, 2004

14 entities, mostly from China, for alleged supplying of Iran’s missile program.

Many, such as North Korea’s Changgwang Sinyong and China’s Norinco and Great

Wall Industry Corp, have been sanctioned several times previously. Newly

sanctioned entities included North Korea’s Paeksan Associated Corporation, and

December 2004 and January

2005

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Taiwan’s Ecoma Enterprise Co.

9 entities, including those from China (Norinco yet again), India (two chemical

companies), and Austria. Sanctions against Dr. Surendar of India (see September

29, 2004) were ended, presumably because of information exonerating him.

December 26, 2005

7 entities. Two Indian chemical companies (Balaji Amines and Prachi Poly

Products); two Russian firms (Rosobornexport and aircraft manufacturer Sukhoi);

two North Korean entities (Korean Mining and Industrial Development, and Korea

Pugang Trading); and one Cuban entity (Center for Genetic Engineering and

Biotechnology).

August 4, 2006 (see below for

Rosobornexport removal)

9 entities. Rosobornexport, Tula Design, and Komna Design Office of Machine

Building, and Alexei Safonov (Russia); Zibo Chemical, China National

Aerotechnology, and China National Electrical (China). Korean Mining and

Industrial Development (North Korea) for WMD or advanced weapons sales to

Iran (and Syria).

January 2007 (see below for

Tula and Rosoboronexport

removal)

14 entities, including Lebanese Hezbollah. Some were penalized for transactions

with Syria. Among the new entities sanctioned for assisting Iran were Shanghai

Non-Ferrous Metals Pudong Development Trade Company (China); Iran’s Defense

Industries Organization; Sokkia Company (Singapore); Challenger Corporation

(Malaysia); Target Airfreight (Malaysia); Aerospace Logistics Services (Mexico); and

Arif Durrani (Pakistani national).

April 23, 2007

13 entities: China Xinshidai Co.; China Shipbuilding and Offshore International

Corp.; Huazhong CNC (China); IRGC; Korea Mining Development Corp. (North

Korea); Korea Taesong Trading Co. (NK); Yolin/Yullin Tech, Inc. (South Korea);

Rosoboronexport (Russia sate arms export agency); Sudan Master Technology;

Sudan Technical Center Co; Army Supply Bureau (Syria); R and M International

FZCO (UAE); Venezuelan Military Industries Co. (CAVIM);

October 23, 2008.

Rosoboronexport removed

May 21, 2010.

16 entities: Belarus: Belarusian Optical Mechanical Association; Beltech Export;

China: Karl Lee; Dalian Sunny Industries; Dalian Zhongbang Chemical Industries

Co.; Xian Junyun Electronic; Iran: Milad Jafari; DIO; IRISL; Qods Force; SAD

Import-Export; SBIG; North Korea: Tangun Trading; Syria: Industrial Establishment

of Defense; Scientific Studies and Research Center; Venezuela: CAVIM.

May 23, 2011

4 entities: Mohammad Minai, senior Qods Force member involved in Iraq; Karim

Muhsin al-Ghanimi, leader of Kata’ib Hezbollah militia in Iraq; Sayiid Salah Hantush

al-Maksusi, senior Kata’ib Hezbollah member; and Riyad Jasim al-Hamidawi, Iran

based Kata’ib Hezbollah member

November 8, 2012

Entities Designated as Threats to Iraqi Stability under Executive Order 13438

Ahmad Forouzandeh. Commander of the Qods Force Ramazan Headquarters,

accused of fomenting sectarian violence in Iraq and of organizing training in Iran for

Iraqi Shiite militia fighters

January 9, 2008

Abu Mustafa al-Sheibani. Iran based leader of network that funnels Iranian arms to

Shiite militias in Iraq.

January 9, 2008

Isma’il al-Lami (Abu Dura). Shiite militia leader, breakaway from Sadr Mahdi Army,

alleged to have committed mass kidnapings and planned assassination attempts

against Iraqi Sunni politicians

January 9, 2008

Mishan al-Jabburi. Financier of Sunni insurgents, owner of pro-insurgent Al-Zawra

television, now banned

January 9, 2008

Al Zawra Television Station January 9, 2008

Khata’ib Hezbollah (pro-Iranian Mahdi splinter group) July 2, 2009

Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis July 2, 2009

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Iranians Sanctioned Under September 29, 2010, Executive Order 13553 on Human Rights Abusers

1. IRGC Commander Mohammad Ali Jafari

2. Minister of Interior at time of June 2009 elections Sadeq Mahsouli

3. Minister of Intelligence at time of elections Qolam Hossein Mohseni-Ejei

4. Tehran Prosecutor General at time of elections Saeed Mortazavi

5. Minister of Intelligence Heydar Moslehi

6. Former Defense Minister Mostafa Mohammad Najjar

7. Deputy National Police Chief Ahmad Reza Radan

8. Basij (security militia) Commander at time of elections Hossein Taeb

All sanctioned on September

29, 2010

9. Tehran Prosecutor General Abbas Dowlatabadi (appointed August 2009). Has

indicted large numbers of Green movement protesters.

10. Basij forces commander (since October 2009) Mohammad Reza Naqdi (was

head of Basij intelligence during post 2009 election crackdown)

Sanctioned on February 23,

2011

11. Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC)

12. Basij Resistance Force

13. Law Enforcement Forces (LEF)

14. LEF Commander Ismail Ahmad Moghadam

June 9, 2011.

15. Ministry of Intelligence and Security of Iran (MOIS) February 16, 2012

Iranians Sanctioned Under Executive Order 13572 (April 29, 2011) for Repression of the Syrian People

Revolutionary Guard—Qods Force

Qasem Soleimani (Qods Force Commander)

Mohsen Chizari (Commander of Qods Force operations and training)

April 29, 2011

May 18, 2011

Same as above

Iranian Entities Sanctioned Under Executive Order 13606 Targeting Human Rights Abuses Via

Information Technology (April 23, 2012)

- Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS)

- The IRGC (Guard Cyber Defense Command)

- Law Enforcement Forces

- Datak Telecom

Entities Names as Iranian Government Entities Under Executive Order 13599

Designations made July 12, 2012:

- Petro Suisse Intertrade Company (Switzerland)

-Hong Kong Intertrade Company (Hong Kong)

- Noor Energy (Malaysia)

- Petro Energy Intertrade (Dubai, UAE)

(all four of the above were name as front companies for NIOV, Naftiran Intertrade Company, Ltd (NICO), or NICO

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Sarl)

- 20 Iranian financial institutions (names not released but available from Treasury Dept.)

- 58 vessels of National Iranian Tanker Company (NITC)

Entities Designated as Human Rights Abusers or Limiting Free Expression Under Executive Order

13628

Designations made on November 8, 2012:

- Ali Fazli, deputy commander of the Basij

- Reza Taghipour, Minister of Communications and Information Technology

- LEF Commander Moghaddam (see above)

- Center to Investigate Organized Crime (established by the IRGC to protect the government from cyber attacks

- Press Supervisory Board, established in 1986 to issue licenses to publications and oversee news agencies

- Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance

- Rasool Jalili, active in assisting the government’s Internet censorship activities.

- Anm Afzar Goster-e-Sharif, company owned by Jalili, above, to provide web monitoring and censorship gear.

- PekyAsa, another company owned by Jalili, to develop telecom software.

Author Contact Information

Kenneth Katzman

Specialist in Middle Eastern Affairs

[e-mail], 7-7612

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