Iran Watch Bulletin

Tracking the world's efforts to punish Iranian proliferators

Updated April 7, 2009

 

As of this month, the United Nations, the United States and the European Union have hit a total of 175 Iranian individuals and organizations with financial penalties(*). This punishment, meted out in stages since 2005, has been the world’s main response to Iran’s efforts to develop long-range missiles and the ability to arm them with nuclear warheads. The Iranian entities punished are all thought to be linked to these efforts.

The punishment has largely meant freezing the assets of the entities and prohibiting virtually all transactions with them. See the table below for a list of the entities targeted so far.

The U.S., the U.N. and the E.U. have not all chosen the same targets. The U.N. Security Council has approved resolutions requiring member states to freeze the assets of 76 entities; the United States has frozen the assets of 114 by executive order (**); and the European Union has implemented financial sanctions against 115, including all 76 designated by the U.N. The United States, with the broadest network of general restrictions prohibiting business with Iran, has not shied away from designating major Iranian banks as well as outfits like the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), the Ministry of Defense Armed Forces Logistics (MODAFL) and the Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines, Iran's national maritime carrier. Yet U.S. action against Iranian individuals has lagged. The Security Council, impeded by foot-draggers like Russia and China, has preferred to target only some IRGC and MODAFL officials, not the entire organizations. Also, disagreement among European Union member states has slowed the E.U. process of targeting state-run Iranian banks – a move championed by the United States.

The table below reveals who has been sanctioned by whom, and why. A yellow-filled box indicates that no financial sanctions have yet been imposed; a date indicates when the sanction occurred. When available, each entity’s name is linked to a description of its activities (from the Iran Watch Suspect Entities database) and each date is linked to the authority for the designation (from the Iran Watch Library).



NAME
DATE OF SANCTIONS
   
Organizations
U.N. Security Council
European Union
United States
Abzar Boresh Kaveh Co.  
Aerospace Industries Organization (AIO)  
Amin Industrial Complex    
Ammunition and Metallurgy Industries Group (AMIG)
Arian Bank    
Armament Industries Group  
Armed Forces Georgraphical Organization    
Asia Marine Network Pte. Ltd.    
Assa Corporation    
Assa Company Limited    
Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI)
Banco Internacional de Desarollo, C.A.    
Bank Kargoshaee    
Bank Mellat    
Bank Melli Iran, its branches and subsidiaries  
Bank Melli Iran Investment Company    
Bank Melli Iran Zao  
Bank Melli Printing and Publishing Co.    
Bank Sepah
Bank Sepah International
Barzagani Tejarat Tavanmad Saccal companies  
BMIIC International General Trading Ltd.    
Cement Investment and Development Company    
CISCO Shipping Co. Ltd.    
Cruise Missile Industry Group  
Defense Industries Organization (DIO)
Defense Technology and Science Research Center (DTSRC)    
Electro Sanam Company  
EDBI Exchange Company    
EDBI Stock Brokerage Company    
Esfahan Nuclear Fuel Research and Production Center and Esfahan Nuclear Technology Center
Ettehad Technical Group  
Export Development Bank of Iran (EDBI)    
Fajr Industrial Group (***)
Farasakht Industries    
Farayand Technique
First Persian Equity Fund    
Future Bank B.S.C.    
Gharargahe Sazandegi Ghaem    
Ghorb-e Karbala    
Ghorb Nooh    
Hara Company    
Industrial Factories of Precision (IFP) Machinery (****)
Iran Aircraft Manufacturing Industries    
Iran Communications Industries    
Iran Electronics Industries  
Iran o Hind Shipping Company
   
Iran o Misr Shipping Company    
Irinvestship Ltd.    
Irital Shipping SRL Company    
IRISL Benelux NV    
IRISL China Shipping Co., Ltd.    
IRISL Europe Gmbh
   
IRISL (Malta) Limited    
IRISL Marine Services & Engineering Company
 
IRISL Multimodal Transport Co.    
IRISL (UK) Ltd.    
Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines (IRISL)    
Islamic Revoluationary Guard Corps (IRGC)    
IRGC Air Force    
Jabber Ibn Hayan
Joza Industrial Co.
Kalaye Electric Company
Karaj Nuclear Research Center
Kaveh Cutting Tools Company (*****)    
Kavoshyar Company
Khatem-ol Anbiya Construction Organization  
Khazar Sea Shipping Lines
   
Khorasan Metallurgy Industries
Malek Ashtar University    
Marine Industries Group    
Mazandaran Cement Company    
Mazandaran Textile Company    
Mechanical Industry    
Mehr Cayman Ltd.    
Mellat Bank SB CJSC    
Melli Agrochemical Company PJS    
Melli Bank PLC  
Melli Investment Holding International    
Mesbah Energy Company
Ministry of Defense Armed Forces Logistics (MODAFL)  
Ministry of Defense Logistics Export (MODLEX)    
Mizan Machine Manufacturing Group  
Niru Battery Manufacturing Company
Novin Energy Company
Nuclear Fuel Production and Procurement Company (NFPC)    
Oasis Freight Agencies    
Omran Sahel    
Oriental Oil Kish    
Parchin Chemical Industries
Pars Aviation Services Company  
Pars Trash Company
Persia International Bank PLC    
Pioneer Energy Industries Development Company
Qods Aeronautics Industries
Safety Equipment Procurement (SEP)
Sahel Consultant Engineers    
Sanam Industrial Group
Sepasad Engineering Company    
Shahid Bagheri Industrial Group (SBIG)
Shahid Hemmat Industrial Group (SHIG)
Shahid Sattari Industries    
Shahid Sayyade Shirazi Industries    
Shipping Computer Services Company    
Shiraz Electronics Industries    
Sho’a’ Aviation  
Shomal Cement Company    
South Shipping Line Iran    
Special Industries Group    
State Purchasing Organization (SPO)    
TAMAS Company
Valfajr 8th Shipping Line Co SSK    
Ya Mahdi Industries Group (YMA) 
Yazd Metallurgy Industries    
7th of Tir
       
115 organizations sanctioned (*)
36
55
97
       
Persons
U.N. Security Council
European Union
United States
Fereidoun Abbasi-Davani  
Dawood Agha-Jani
Reza Aghazadeh    
Vice Admiral Ali Akbar Ahmadian
Amir Moayyed Alai  
Behman Asgarpour  
Mohammad Fedai Ashiani  
Abbas Rezaee Ashtiani  
Bahmanyar Morteza Bahmanyar
Haleh Bakhtiar  
Morteza Behzad  
IRGC Brigadier-General Javad Darvish-Vand    
Ahmad Vahid Dastjerdi
Ahmad Derakhshandeh
Dr. Mohammad Eslami  
Reza-Gholi Esmaeli
Mohsen Fakhrizadeh-Mahabadi
Dr. Hoseyn Faqihian    
IRGC Brigadier-General Seyyed Mahdi Farahi    
Mojtaba Haeri    
Brigadier-General Mohammad Hejazi
Mohsen Hojati
IRGC Brigadier-General Ali Hoseynitash    
Seyyed Hussein Hosseini  
Mohammad Ali Jafari    
Mahmood Jannatian    
M. Javad Karimi Sabet  
Mehrdada Akhlaghi Ketabachi
Said Esmail Khalilipour    
Ali Reza Khanchi    
Ali Hajinia Leilabadi
Ebrahim Mahmudzadeh    
Naser Maleki
Hamid-Reza Mohajerani  
Jafar Mohammadi  
Brigadier-General Beik Mohammadlu    
Ehsan Monajemi  
Anis Naccache    
Brigadier General Mohammad Naderi    
IRGC Brigadier-General Mostafa Mohammad Najjar    
Brigadier-General Mohammad Reza Naqdi  
Houshang Nobari  
Lt Gen Mohammad Mehdi Nejad Nouri  
Mohammad Qannadi
Amir Rahimi  
Dr. Javad Rahiqi    
Abbas Rashidi  
Brigadier-General Morteza Rezaie
Rear Admiral Morteza Safari  
Maj Gen Yahya Rahim Safavi
Seyed Jaber Safdari  
Gen Hosein Salimi
Rear Admiral Mohammad Shafi'i Rudsari    
IRGC Brigadier-General Ali Shamshiri    
Abdollah Solat Sana    
Brigadier General Qasem Soleimani
Ghasem Soleymani  
IRGC Brigadier-General Ahmad Vahidi    
Brigadier-General Mohammad Reza Zahedi  
General Zolqadr  
       
60 persons sanctioned
40
60
17
 
 
U.N. Security Council
European Union
United States
Combined, 175 organizations and persons sanctioned
76
115
114
 
NOTES:
(*) One entity, Fajr Industrial Group, appears to have been designated twice by the U.N. Security Council and the European Union, under different names.
(**) The United States has designated a number of additional Iranian entities for their proliferation activities under other authorities, which impose more limited trade sanctions. Click here for more information.
(***) Fajr Industrial Group was also designated under the alias Industrial Factories of Precision (IFP) Machinery, in Annex III to U.N. Security Council resolution 1803.
(****) Industrial Factories of Precision (IFP) Machinery is an alias of the Fajr Industrial Group, which was designated in the Annex to U.N. Security Council resolution 1737.
(*****) Kaveh Cutting Tools may be an alias for Khorasan Metallurgy Industries.