| Added to the Specially Designated National (SDN) list maintained by the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) on October 22, 2008, freezing its assets under U.S. jurisdiction and prohibiting transactions with U.S. parties, pursuant to Executive Order 13382, which targets proliferators of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) and their delivery systems; designated for being owned or controlled by or acting or purporting to act for or on behalf of EDBI (Export Development Bank of Iran - see separate entity record), which has facilitated financing for proliferation-related entities sanctioned under U.S. and UN authorities. |
