Subordinate to the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI).

Uses Sun Middle East FZ Company to procure sensitive goods; according to the European Union, managing director Mohammad Reza Rezvanianzadeh, also an AEOI official, oversees and has issued tenders to procurement companies for the supply of sensitive items for the Fuel Manufacturing Plant (FMP), the Zirconium Powder Plant (ZPP), and the Uranium Conversion Facility (UCF); other company officials have reportedly included Reza Aghazadeh, Mohammad Ghanadi Marageh, Qassem Tarzi, Solat Sanna, Manouchehr Rooshan, Ali Amani, and Mansour Movahed Raad.

Sanctions

As part of the re-imposition of U.S. sanctions on Iran, added on November 5, 2018 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 13599, which targets entities controlled by the Government of Iran and Iranian financial institutions; foreign parties facilitating transactions for the entity or otherwise assisting the entity are subject to U.S. sanctions.

Previously added to the SDN list on November 21, 2011, pursuant to Executive Order 13382, which targets proliferators of weapons of mass destruction and their delivery systems; removed from the SDN list in January 2016 as part of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action.

Listed by the European Union on May 23, 2011 as an entity linked to Iran's proliferation-sensitive nuclear activities or Iran's development of nuclear weapon delivery systems; removed from the E.U. list in January 2016 as part of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action.

Formerly sanctioned by the government of Canada.