Iranian Entity: Iran Communications Industries (ICI)

A subsidiary of Iran Electronics Industries (IEI - see separate entity record) specialized in communications technology; owned or controlled by Iran's MODAFL (Ministry of Defense Armed Forces Logistics - see separate entity record).

Listed by the British government in 2008 as an entity of potential concern for WMD-related procurement; on September 17, 2008, added to the Specially Designated National (SDN) list maintained by the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), 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; the designation was part of sanctions against Iranian military end-users which obtained sensitive U.S.-origin goods through Iranian procurement front companies, resulting in criminal indictment by the U.S. Justice Department of Ali Akbar Yahya, F.N. Yaghmaei, Mayrow General Trading, Atlinx Electronics, Micatic General Trading, Madjico Micro Electronics, Al-Faris, Neda Industrial Group, Bahman Ghandi, Farshid Gillardian, Kaam Chee Mun, Djamshid Nezhad, Ahmad Rahzad, Majid Seif, Eco Biochem Sdn BHD and Vast Solution Sdn BHD (see separate entity records); listed as an entity of concern in an early warning document distributed by the German government to industry in May 2002, but was not re-listed in 2005; identified by the British government in February 1998 as having procured goods and/or technology for weapons of mass destruction programs (specifically missile), in "addition to doing non-proliferation related business."

Iran's leading manufacturer of military communication equipment and systems; manufactures tactical communication and encryption systems; consists of seven "industries," including Tactical Communications, Communications Security, Telecommunication, Mobile Communications, Parts and Components, Security System and Outsourcing; capable of computer aided design and manufacturing (CAD-CAM); development of multilayer printed circuit boards (PCB) and 8 and 16 bit microcontroller development systems.