Serves as chief executive officer, managing director, and project manager of Neka Novin, a company involved in the procurement of specialized equipment and materials for Iran's nuclear program; added to the Specially Designated Nationals (SDN) list maintained by the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) on December 12, 2013, 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; Iranian passport number is J16661804.