Weapon Program:
- Missile
Address:
Iran
An official in the Aerospace Industries Organization (AIO) and a former official in Shahid Hemmat Industrial Group (SHIG) and Shahid Haj Ali Movahed Research Center (a.k.a. Shahid Movahed Industries).
Suspected of involvement in technical and logistical cooperation between SHIG and Korea Mining Development Trading Corporation (KOMID), according to a U.N. Panel of Experts report; with Asghar Esma'ilpur and missile specialists from North Korea, suspected of supporting the launch of a space launch vehicle (SLV) in Iran, according to a U.N. Panel of Experts report.
Sanctions
Added on September 21, 2020, to the Specially Designated Nationals (SDN) list maintained by the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), freezing the person's 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 person or otherwise assisting the person are subject to U.S. sanctions; also subject to the Iranian Financial Sanctions Regulations; foreign financial institutions facilitating transactions for the person may be prohibited from opening or maintaining correspondent or payable-through accounts in the United States.