An explosives and metals expert for Shahid Karimi Group, a subsidiary of Iran's Organization of Defensive Innovation and Research (SPND), which has been associated with "possible military dimensions of the Iranian nuclear program," according to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); has assisted SPND’s efforts to procure equipment used for containing explosions.

Affiliated with Azar Afrouz Saeed Engineering Company, an Iranian company specializing in explosives; has reportedly conducted research on the effect of pulse current variables on the hardness of nickel-diamond-nickel coatings; reportedly received a PhD in chemical engineering from Malek Ashtar University of Technology (MUT).

Passport number is F20784822 (Iran); born in Abadan, Iran, in 1958.

Sanctions

Added on March 22, 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 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.