As of this month, the United Nations, the United States and the European Union have hit a total of 264 Iranian individuals and organizations with financial penalties1. 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 117 entities; the United States relied on an executive order targeting proliferators of mass destruction weapons to freeze the assets of 136 entities2; and the European Union has implemented financial sanctions against 249. 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 (IRISL), 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, IRISL and MODAFL entities, not the entire organizations.
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).
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| Organizations |
U.N. Security Council |
European Union |
United States |
| Abzar Boresh Kaveh Co. |
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| Aerospace Industries Organization (AIO) |
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| Amin Industrial Complex |
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| Ammunition and Metallurgy Industries Group (AMIG) |
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| Arfa Paint Company |
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| Arfeh Company |
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| Arian Bank |
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| Armament Industries Group |
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| Armed Forces Georgraphical Organization |
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| Arya Niroo Nik |
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| Asia Marine Network Pte. Ltd. |
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| Assa Corporation |
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| Assa Company Limited |
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| Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) |
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| Azarab Industries |
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| Banco Internacional de Desarollo, C.A. |
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| Bank Kargoshaee |
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| Bank Mellat, 6 its branches and subsidiaries |
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| Bank Melli Iran, its branches and subsidiaries |
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| Bank Melli Iran Investment Company |
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| Bank Melli Iran Zao |
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| Bank Melli Printing and Publishing Co. |
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| Bank Refah |
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| Bank Saderat Iran, its branches and subsidiaries10 |
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| BankSaderat PLC |
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| Bank Sepah |
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| Bank Sepah International |
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| Banque Sina |
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| Barzagani Tejarat Tavanmad Saccal companies |
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| BMIIC International General Trading Ltd. |
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| Bushehr Shipping Company Limited (Tehran) |
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| Cement Investment and Development Company |
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| CISCO Shipping Co. Ltd. |
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| Cruise Missile Industry Group |
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| Defense Industries Organization (DIO) |
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| Defense Technology and Science Research Center (DTSRC) |
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| Doostan International Company |
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| Electro Sanam Company |
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| EDBI Exchange Company |
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| EDBI Stock Brokerage Company |
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| Esfahan Nuclear Fuel Research and Production Center and Esfahan Nuclear Technology Center |
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| Equipment Supplier for Nuclear Industries Corporation (ESNICO) |
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| Etemad Amin Invest Co Mobin |
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| Ettehad Technical Group |
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| Export Development Bank of Iran (EDBI) |
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| Fajr Aviation Composite Industries |
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| Fajr Industrial Group3 |
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| Farasakht Industries |
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| Farasepehr Engineering Company |
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| Farayand Technique |
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| Fater Engineering Institute |
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| First East Export Bank (FEEB) |
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| First Persian Equity Fund |
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| Fulmen |
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| Future Bank B.S.C. |
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| Gharargahe Sazandegi Ghaem |
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| Ghorb-e Karbala |
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| Ghorb Nooh |
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| Hafiz Darya Shipping Company (HDS Lines) |
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| Hanseatic Trade Trust & Shipping (HTTS) GmbH |
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| Hara Company |
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| Hosseini Nejad Trading Co. |
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| Imensazen Consultant Engineers Institute (ICEI) |
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| Industrial Development & Renovation Organization (IDRO) |
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| Industrial Factories of Precision (IFP) Machinery4 |
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| Iran Aircraft Industries (IACI) |
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| Iran Aircraft Manufacturing Industries |
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| Iran Centrifuge Technology Company |
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| Iran Communications Industries |
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| Iran Electronics Industries |
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| Iran Insurance Company |
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Iran o Hind Shipping Company
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| Iran o Misr Shipping Company |
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| Iran Saffron Company |
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| Iranian Aviation Industries Organization (IAIO) |
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| Irinvestship Ltd. |
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| Irital Shipping SRL Company |
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| IRISL Benelux NV |
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| IRISL China Shipping Co., Ltd. |
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| IRISL Club |
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IRISL Europe Gmbh
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| IRISL (Malta) Limited |
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| IRISL Marine Services & Engineering Company |
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| IRISL Multimodal Transport Co. |
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| IRISL (UK) Ltd. |
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| Isfahan Optics |
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| ISI Maritime Limited (Malta) |
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| Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines (IRISL)6 |
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| Islamic Revoluationary Guard Corps (IRGC) |
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| IRGC Air Force |
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| IRGC-Air Force Al-Ghadir Missile Command |
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| IRGC Missile Command |
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| IRGC-Qods Force10 |
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| Jabber Ibn Hayan |
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| Javedan Mehr Toos |
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| Joza Industrial Co. |
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| Kala Naft |
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| Kalaye Electric Company |
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| Karaj Nuclear Research Center |
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| Kaveh Cutting Tools Company 5 |
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| Kavoshyar Company |
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| Khatem-ol Anbiya Construction Organization |
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Khazar Sea Shipping Lines
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| Khorasan Metallurgy Industries |
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| Leadmarine |
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| Machine Sazi Arak |
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| Makin Institute |
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| Malek Ashtar University |
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| Marble Shipping Limited (Malta) |
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| Marine Industries Group |
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| MASNA (Moierat Saakht Niroogahye Atomi Iran) Managing Company for the Construction of Nuclear Power Plants |
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| Mazandaran Cement Company |
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| Mazandaran Textile Company |
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| M. Babaie Industries |
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| Mechanical Industry |
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| Mehr Cayman Ltd. |
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| Mellat Bank SB CJSC |
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| Melli Agrochemical Company PJS |
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| Melli Bank PLC |
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| Melli Investment Holding International |
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| Mesbah Energy Company |
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| Ministry of Defense Armed Forces Logistics (MODAFL) |
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| Ministry of Defense Logistics Export (MODLEX) |
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| Mizan Machine Manufacturing Group |
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| Modern Industries Technique Company |
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| Naserin Vahid |
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| Niru Battery Manufacturing Company |
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| Novin Energy Company |
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| Nuclear Fuel Production and Procurement Company (NFPC) |
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| Nuclear Research Center for Agriculture and Medicine 7 |
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| Oasis Freight Agencies |
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| Omran Sahel |
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| Oriental Oil Kish |
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| Parchin Chemical Industries |
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| Pars Aviation Services Company |
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| Pars Trash Company |
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| Parto Sanat Co |
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| Passive Defense Organization |
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| Pejman Industrial Services |
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| Persia International Bank PLC |
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| Pioneer Energy Industries Development Company |
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| Post Bank |
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| Qods Aeronautics Industries |
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| Rahab (Engineering) Institute |
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| Rah Sahel |
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| Raka |
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| Research Institute of Nuclear Science & Technology |
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| Sabalan Company 8 |
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| Safety Equipment Procurement (SEP) 9 |
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| Safiran Payam Darya Shipping Lines (SAPID) |
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| Sahand Aluminum Parts Industrial Company (SAPICO) 8 |
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| Sahel Consultant Engineers |
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| Sanam Industrial Group |
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| Schiller Novin |
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| Seibow Limited |
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| Seibow Logistics |
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| Sepanir Oil and Gas Engineering Co. |
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| Sepasad Engineering Company |
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| Shahid Ahmad Kazemi Industrial Group |
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| Shahid Bagheri Industrial Group (SBIG) |
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| Shahid Hemmat Industrial Group (SHIG) |
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| Shahid Karrazi Industries |
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| Shahid Sattari Industries |
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| Shahid Sayyade Shirazi Industries |
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| Shakhese Behbud Sanat |
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| Shetab G. |
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| Shetab Gaman |
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| Shetab Trading |
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| Shipping Computer Services Company |
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| Shiraz Electronics Industries |
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| Sho’a’ Aviation |
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| Shomal Cement Company |
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| Soroush Sarzamin Asatir Ship Management Company |
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| South Shipping Line Iran |
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| South Way Shipping Agency Co Ltd |
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| Special Industries Group |
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| State Purchasing Organization (SPO) |
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| TAMAS Company |
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| Technology Cooperation Office |
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| Tiz Pars 8 |
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| Valfajr 8th Shipping Line Co SSK |
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| Y.A.S. Co. Ltd |
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| Ya Mahdi Industries Group (YMA) |
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| Yasa Part, its branches and subsidiaries |
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| Yazd Metallurgy Industries |
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| 7th of Tir |
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196 organizations sanctioned26 |
76 |
181 |
113 |
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| Persons |
U.N. Security Council |
European Union |
United States |
| Fereidoun Abbasi-Davani |
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| Dawood Agha-Jani |
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| Reza Aghazadeh |
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| Vice Admiral Ali Akbar Ahmadian |
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| Amir Moayyed Alai |
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| Behman Asgarpour |
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| Mohammad Fedai Ashiani |
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| Abbas Rezaee Ashtiani |
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| Bahmanyar Morteza Bahmanyar |
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| Haleh Bakhtiar |
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| Morteza Behzad |
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| IRGC Brigadier-General Javad Darvish-Vand |
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| Ahmad Vahid Dastjerdi |
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| Ahmad Derakhshandeh |
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| Ali Divandari |
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| Dr. Mohammad Eslami |
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| Reza-Gholi Esmaeli |
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| Rear Admiral Ali Fadavi |
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| Mohsen Fakhrizadeh-Mahabadi |
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| Dr. Hoseyn Faqihian |
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| IRGC Brigadier-General Seyyed Mahdi Farahi |
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| Parviz Fatah |
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| Mojtaba Haeri |
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| Brigadier-General Mohammad Hejazi |
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| Mohsen Hojati |
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| IRGC Brigadier-General Ali Hoseynitash |
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| Seyyed Hussein Hosseini |
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| Mohammad Ali Jafari |
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| Mahmood Jannatian |
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| M. Javad Karimi Sabet |
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| Mehrdada Akhlaghi Ketabachi |
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| Said Esmail Khalilipour |
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| Ali Reza Khanchi |
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| Ali Hajinia Leilabadi |
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| Fereydoun Mahmoudian |
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| Ebrahim Mahmudzadeh |
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| Naser Maleki |
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| Hamid-Reza Mohajerani |
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| Jafar Mohammadi |
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| Brigadier-General Beik Mohammadlu |
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| Mohammad Mokhber |
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| Ehsan Monajemi |
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| Mohammad Reza Movasaghnia |
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| Anis Naccache |
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| Brigadier General Mohammad Naderi |
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| IRGC Brigadier-General Mostafa Mohammad Najjar |
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| Brigadier-General Mohammad Reza Naqdi |
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| Houshang Nobari |
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| Lt Gen Mohammad Mehdi Nejad Nouri |
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| BrigGen Mohammad Pakpur |
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| Mohammad Qannadi |
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| Rostam Qasemi |
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| Amir Rahimi |
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| Dr. Javad Rahiqi |
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| Abbas Rashidi |
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| Brigadier-General Morteza Rezaie |
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| Rear Admiral Morteza Safari |
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| Maj Gen Yahya Rahim Safavi |
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| Seyed Jaber Safdari |
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| Gen Hosein Salimi |
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| Rear Admiral Mohammad Shafi'i Rudsari |
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| IRGC Brigadier-General Ali Shamshiri |
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| Abdollah Solat Sana |
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| Brigadier General Qasem Soleimani |
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| Ghasem Soleymani |
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| IRGC Brigadier-General Ahmad Vahidi |
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| Brigadier-General Mohammad Reza Zahedi |
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| General Zolqadr |
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| 68 persons sanctioned |
41 |
68 |
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U.N. Security Council |
European Union |
United States |
| Combined, 264 organizations and persons sanctioned |
117 |
249 |
136 |
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| NOTES: |
| (1) One entity, Fajr Industrial Group, appears to have been designated twice by the U.N. Security Council and the European Union, under different names. |
| (2) 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. |
| (3) 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. |
| (4) 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. |
| (5) Kaveh Cutting Tools appears to be an alias for Abazar Boresh Kaveh Co. |
| (6) As of October 12, 2009, the U.K. financial services sector was required to cease all business with Iran's Bank Mellat and the Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines (IRISL), and any of their branchs. |
| (7) The Nuclear Research Center for Agriculture and Medicine was also designated under the alias Karaj Nuclear Research Center in Annex I to U.N. Security Council resolution 1747. |
| (8) Sabalan Company, Sahand Aluminum Parts Industrial Company (SAPICO) and Tiz Pars were designated in U.N. Security Council resolution 1929 as "cover names" for the Shahid Hemmat Industrial Group (SHIG). |
| (9) Safety Equipment Procurement Company (SEP) may be an alias for Pejman Industrial Services. |
| (10)
On October 25, 2007, the U.S. Treasury Department designated the IRGC-Qods Force (IRGC-QF) under E.O. 13224 for providing material support to the Taliban and other terrorist organizations, and Iran's state-owned Bank Saderat as a terrorist financier. |
