An Iran-based supplier of integrated and inertial navigation systems and supporting software; founder and managing director is Mohammad Abedini Najafabadi; according to the U.S. Department of the Treasury, has developed and procured navigation system components used by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Aerospace Force Self-Sufficiency Jihad Organization (IRGC ASF SSJO) and other Iranian organizations to produce missiles and drones.

According to the U.S. Department of Justice, manufactured a Sepehr Navigation System recovered from a Shahed unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) that killed three U.S. service members during a January 2024 attack by IRGC-backed militants on a military base in Jordan.

Allegedly manufactures Sepehr Navigation Systems for the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Aerospace Force for use in UAVs, cruise missiles, and ballistic missiles; between March 2019 and March 2023, the majority of sales were allegedly of Sepehr systems to the IRGC Aerospace Force, including more than USD $8 million worth of Sepehr systems sold between September 2020 and September 2022; according to the U.S. Department of the Treasury, sold more than one thousand Sepehr systems to the IRGC ASF SSJO between 2022 and 2023; sales of Sepehr systems to the IRGC Aerospace Force allegedly increased by 556% percent between 2021 and 2022, coinciding with the start of the Russian military's use of Iranian UAVs against Ukraine.

Allegedly received U.S.-origin goods, services, and technology, including types of electronic components used in the Sepehr Navigation System, through Switzerland-based front company Illumove SA in an illicit export scheme coordinated by Abedini Najafabadi and U.S.-Iranian dual national Mahdi Mohammad Sadeghi, who were indicted in the United States on December 19, 2024; as part of the scheme, allegedly received tens of thousands of dollars of microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), integrated circuits, sensors, evaluation boards, accelerometers, gyroscopes, and inertial measurement units; between March 2022 and April 2024, allegedly received unpublished datasheets via email from an unwitting U.S. company, including for parts controlled by the U.S. Department of Commerce for anti-terrorism purposes; allegedly provided employees, software, and technical expertise to Illumove SA in furtherance of the scheme, in which Illumove SA carried out work under a contract with the U.S. company.

In 2016, allegedly entered into a contract with Sadeghi to sell firmware and hardware prototypes worth $250,000 to an Iran-based company owned by Sadeghi.

According to the U.S. Department of the Treasury, consults, designs, manufactures, and supplies navigation, automation, and instrumentation systems, including for use in cruise and ballistic missiles, UAVs, unmanned underwater vehicles (UUVs), and unmanned surface vehicles (USVs); produces "Rasam" navigation systems in addition to the Sepehr system.

In addition to the IRGC Aerospace Force, customers and clients include:

• Ferdowsi University of Mashhad
• Imam Hussein University (IHU)
• Iran Electronics Industries (IEI)
• IRGC Navy
• Malek Ashtar University of Technology
• Shahed Aviation Industries Research Center (SAIRC)
• Sharif University of Technology

Company officials include Mohammad Abedini Najafabadi (managing director) and Kaveh Merat (chairman of the board of directors).

Formed in the Industry Relations Department of Sharif University of Technology in 2010 or early 2011; founders included Mohammad Abedini Najafabadi, Kaveh Merat, and Hassan Salarieh, who later became head of the Iranian Space Agency.

Sanctions

Added on December 18, 2024, to the Specially Designated Nationals (SDN) list maintained by the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), 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; 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 entity or otherwise assisting the entity may be subject to U.S. sanctions; foreign financial institutions facilitating transactions for the entity 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.