A front company used to facilitate tens of millions of dollars in proliferation-related transactions involving U.S. technology and electronic components for the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and Iran's missile program.

Owned or controlled by Hamed Dehghan; purchased export-controlled military end-use equipment from U.S. suppliers for entities involved in Iranian proliferation activities; Iran-based Shafagh Senobar Yazd Company Limited served as a consignee for the procurement network; the following companies and persons were also involved in the network: Ebtekar Sanat Ilya, Pishtazan Kavosh Gostar Boshra (PKGB), Shaghayegh Akhaei, Hadi Dehghan, and Mahdi Ebrahimzadeh.

Company officials include Hong Feng Zhang (director); registration number is 2147089; DUNS number is 66-412-2239; established in 2014.

Sanctions

Added on August 28, 2019 to the Specially Designated Nationals (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 and their delivery systems; foreign parties facilitating transactions for the entity or otherwise assisting the entity are subject to U.S. sanctions; also subject to the Iranian Financial Sanctions Regulations; foreign financial institutions facilitating transactions for the entity may be prohibited from opening or maintaining correspondent or payable-through accounts in the United States.