Imen Gostar Raman Kish, a company controlled by senior officials in Iran's Organization of Defensive Innovation and Research (SPND), a military nuclear research institute, advertises equipment containing radiation-detection tubes manufactured by U.K.-based company Centronic Ltd. The Mindex Center, the export agency of Iran's Ministry of Defense and Armed Forces Logistics (MODAFL), also advertises the same equipment. The chairman and vice-chairman of Imen Gostar are both senior SPND officials sanctioned by the United States, and its CEO traveled to Russia in 2024 as part of an Iranian delegation seeking technologies usable in nuclear weapons development. Imen Gostar also claims to sell plastic-scintillator detectors that contain components produced by U.S.-based company Eljen Technology as well as a photomultiplier tube produced by a brand controlled by Exosens, Centronic's France-based parent company. There is no evidence that the Western manufacturers knowingly sold the components to Iran.

The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) announced that it had seized a tanker "for carrying unauthorized cargo". The vessel, the Talara, was a Marshall Islands-flagged tanker transporting gasoil from Singapore to Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The Talara's Cyprus-based ship management company said it lost contact with the vessel on November 14 approximately 20 nautical miles off the coast of Khor Fakkan in the UAE.

Maritime Mutual Insurance Association (MMIA), a New Zealand-based marine insurer, provided insurance coverage to tankers moving sanctioned Iranian-origin and Russian-origin crude oil to buyers in Asia, including China, India, and Malaysia, according to a Reuters review of shipping and insurance records, oil trades, sanctions designations, and interviews. MMIA insured almost one in six tankers in the so-called “shadow fleet” that transports sanctioned oil while obscuring vessel identity and cargo origin, Reuters found. Shadow fleet vessels insured by MMIA included the Yug (formerly Mur), the Fenghuang (formerly Phoenix I and Minerva Zenia), and the Sunsea (Chembulk Tortola).New Zealand financial crime police searched MMIA’s offices on October 16 as part of an investigation conducted jointly with Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States into whether the insurer enabled sanctions violations and failed to deter money laundering and terrorism financing. MMIA is headquartered in New Zealand and has two affiliated companies in Dubai, MME Services and Maritime Reinsurance. Family members of its British owner are also linked to Maritime Management Administration Services in Guernsey and Maritime Pacific Insurance Services in the United Kingdom. The company Shiraz Marine claims on its website to be MMIA's representative in Iran. MMIA denies violating international sanctions.

Nearly 13,000 Iranian-owned companies are registered in Georgia as of June 2025, many of them clustered at a handful of repeat addresses in Tbilisi and the small villages of Dunta and Untsa, according to public records and an investigation by the Georgian nongovernmental organization Civic IDEA. Iranian consultancies advise Iranian businessmen to register companies near Georgian ports, rebrand Iranian-origin goods as “Made in Georgia,” and ship them onward to Western markets. Iranian firms have also supplied Georgian state entities: Qafrina LLC, owned by Iranian national Farzad Nouri, sold closed-circuit television systems to the National Bank of Georgia, courts in Kutaisi, and Tbilisi City Hall; another Iranian-owned firm, Geo Tech, provided hygiene products to the Georgian Defense Ministry, Georgian Railways, and Tbilisi’s municipal transport company, according to Georgian tender records cited in the article. Iranian-Georgian joint venture Green Lab LLC contracted with Georgia's National Center for Disease Control in 2019 to provide medical reagents and testing kits.