![]() ![]() Foad Salehi is being designated pursuant to E.O. 13224 for assisting in, sponsoring, or providing financial, material, or technological support for, or financial or other services to or in support of, the IRGC-QF. Mohammadreza Khedmati and Meghdad Amini are being designated pursuant to E.O. Mohammadreza Khedmati Valadzaghard, Meghdad Amini, and Foad Salehi ![]() Khoda’i also is an official at IRGC-QF front company, Jahan Aras Kish. Khoda’i partnered with Mohammadreza Khedmati, another currency exchanger also being designated today, to establish front companies for the benefit of the IRGC-QF, and worked with Sa’id Najafpur and his associate, Meghdad Amini, to conduct financial activities on behalf of the IRGC-QF. Najafpur is the managing director of Jahan Aras Kish, an IRGC-QF front company which is also being designated today. Nikbakht, an IRGC-QF official, has worked with Meghdad Amini, a currency exchanger also being designated today, to conduct financial activities on behalf of the IRGC-QF. 13224 for acting for or on behalf of the IRGC-QF. Mas’ud Nikbakht, Sa’id Najafpur, and Mohammad Hasan Khoda’i are being designated pursuant to E.O. Mas’ud Nikbakht, Sa’id Najafpur, and Mohammad Hasan Khoda’i 13224 for it support to the IRGC-QF, and consistent with the Countering America’s Adversaries through Sanctions Act. The IRGC itself was also designated on Octopursuant to E.O. The IRGC-QF was designated pursuant to Executive Order (E.O.) 13224 on October 25, 2007. Countries around the world must be vigilant against Iran’s efforts to exploit their financial institutions to exchange currency and fund the nefarious actors of the IRGC-QF and the world’s largest state sponsor of terror.” “The Treasury Department thanks the UAE for its close collaboration on this matter. Today we are targeting Iranian individuals and front companies engaged in a large-scale currency exchange network that has procured and transferred millions to the IRGC-QF,” said Treasury Secretary Steven T. As I said following the President’s announcement on Tuesday, we are intent on cutting off IRGC revenue streams wherever their source and whatever their destination. dollars to fund the IRGC-QF’s malign activities, including to fund and arm its regional proxy groups, by concealing the purpose for which the U.S. “The Iranian regime and its Central Bank have abused access to entities in the UAE to acquire U.S. This network of exchangers and couriers has converted hundreds of millions of dollars. Iran’s Central Bank was complicit in the IRGC-QF’s scheme and actively supported this network’s currency conversion and enabled its access to funds that it held in its foreign bank accounts. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) designated nine Iranian individuals and entities. dollar-denominated bulk cash to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-Qods Force (IRGC-QF) to fund its malign activities and regional proxy groups. Washington – Today the United States and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) jointly took action to disrupt an extensive currency exchange network in Iran and the UAE that has procured and transferred millions in U.S. ![]()
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