Managing director of United Arab Emirates-based Candid General Trading.

Added to the Specially Designated Nationals (SDN) list maintained by the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) on January 17, 2016, freezing his 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.

Candid General Trading has conducted financial transactions for Mabrooka Trading and Hossein Pournaghshband for goods related to carbon fiber production intended for Iran's Navid Composite.

An Iranian citizen; born on August 16 or 17, 1960; passport number is 5671711 (Iran).