Designated by the U.S. Department of the Treasury (on November 8, 2012) pursuant to Executive Order 13382, which targets weapons of mass destruction proliferators and their supporters; owned or controlled by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC); provides support to the IRGC; founded in 1994 as the "primary medical institution for the IRGC," according to the Treasury Department; headed by IRGC Brigadier General Jafar Aslani.