Designated by the U.S. Department of the Treasury (on May 23, 2013) pursuant to Executive Order 13382, which targets weapons of mass destruction proliferators and their supporters; removed from the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Specially Designated Nationals (SDN) list in January 2016 as part of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action; acts for or on behalf of Iran Air; chariman and managing director of Iran Air; born December 1957; Iranian national.