Part of Sharif University of Technology (SUT); added on July 12, 2012 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; designated for being owned or controlled by, or acting on behalf of, Hamid Reza Rabiee and Advanced Information and Communication Technology Center (AICTC); listed by the Japanese government in 2012 as an entity of concern for proliferation relating to missiles and and nuclear weapons.