Managing director of Iran-based Navid Composite, a subsidiary of U.N.-sanctioned Sanam Industries Group.

Has worked with Aerospace Industries Organization (AIO) director Mehrdad Akhlaghi Ketabachi on financial management of Navid Composite; has contracted with Mostafa Zahedi and Mabrooka Trading to procure goods from foreign suppliers for carbon fiber production operations; has contracted with other Iran-based companies for the supply of polyacrylonitrile (PAN) fiber for Navid Composite's production facility in Rasht, Iran.

Added on February 3, 2017 to the Specially Designated Nationals (SDN) list maintained by the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), freezing his 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; foreign parties facilitating transactions for the entity or otherwise assisting the entity are subject to U.S. sanctions.

An Iranian national; born on September 16, 1970; passport number is H22452336.