Served as 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); assisted SPND’s efforts to procure equipment used for containing explosions.

According to the Israeli government, contributed to materials research for nuclear weaponization processes during the AMAD plan to develop nuclear weapons.

Was affiliated with Azar Afrouz Saeed Engineering Company, an Iranian company specializing in explosives; 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 was F20784822 (Iran).

Born in Abadan, Iran, in 1958; killed during Israeli military strikes against Iran in June 2025, according to the Israeli government.

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 (WMD) and their delivery systems; also subject to the Iranian Financial Sanctions Regulations, which restricts the use of the U.S. financial system for transactions involving Iranian entities.

Foreign parties facilitating transactions for the person or otherwise assisting the person may be subject to U.S. sanctions; foreign financial institutions facilitating transactions for the person may be prohibited from opening or maintaining correspondent or payable-through accounts in the United States; subject to heightened U.S. export license requirements (with a presumption of denial) due to involvement in activities related to WMD proliferation.