A Switzerland-based mechatronics and software company; according to the U.S. Department of the Treasury, a front company for Iran-based Sanat Danesh Rahpuyan Aflak Company Ltd (SDRA) that has 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.

Sole purpose is to represent SDRA's interests outside Iran, including its procurement of western electronics and technology, according to the U.S. Department of the Treasury.

According to the U.S Department of Justice, enabled SDRA to obtain types of U.S.-origin electronic components used in the Sepehr Navigation System that SDRA has sold to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Aerospace Force for use in UAVs, cruise missiles, and ballistic missiles; a Sepehr Navigation System was 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 established by Mohammad Abedini Najafabadi with assistance from Mahdi Mohammad Sadeghi in 2019 for the purpose of evading U.S. sanctions on Iran; used in an illicit export scheme by Abedini Najafabadi and Sadeghi, who were indicted in the United States on December 19, 2024; allegedly used by Abedini Najafabadi to make thousands of dollars' worth of purchases for Sepehr Navigation System projects.

In August 2021, allegedly entered into a contract with a major semiconductor manufacturing company headquartered in the United States to develop an evaluation board to test inertial sensors; allegedly obtained from SDRA the resources needed to complete work on the contract, including employees, software, and technical expertise, without disclosing its relationship with SDRA to the U.S. company; allegedly caused the unwitting U.S. company to export to Switzerland tens of thousands of dollars of microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), integrated circuits, sensors, evaluation boards, accelerometers, gyroscopes, and inertial measurement units, which Abedini Najafabadi subsequently transferred to Iran; allegedly caused the unwitting export of unpublished datasheets from the U.S. company to Iran via email, including a datasheet for a component with navigation and direction-finding capabilities and controlled by the U.S. Department of Commerce for anti-terrorism purposes.

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.