Source: Arshama3′s Blog

July 30, 2010

On 26 July, EU foreign ministers agreed to impose sanctions on Iran above and beyond those called for by the United Nations Security Council. The measures came into force as soon as they were published in the EU’s official journal on Tuesday.

Iranian banks, shipping companies and aerospace firms and the country’s Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) were the key targets of European Union sanctions. Ten groups of banks, six aerospace companies, and 24 firms linked to the Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines (IRISL), and the entire IRGC had their assets frozen by the EU decision.

Seventeen companies located at Moscow, Kabul, Jersey and the Cayman Islands, but all linked with Iran’s Bank Melli, which was placed under sanctions in 2008, also had their assets frozen. Affiliated institutions to Bank Melli are Arian Bank, Asa Company, Kargoshaei Bank, Bank Melli Iran Investment Company, Printing House of Bank Melli, Cement Investment Development Company, Northern Cement Company, Mazandaran Cement Company, and Mazandaran Textile Company.

List of individuals and institutions

The real persons on this list include

1 – Ali Divandari, head of Bank Mellat
2 – Mohammad Reza Movasagh-Nia, head of industrial group Samen al-Aeme (Aerospace Industries Organization affiliated to the Iranian Ministry of Defence)
3 – Fereydoon Mahmoudian (Fulmen company)
4 – Mohammad Mokhber (board member of Sina Banque, associated with the Supreme Leader’s office).

Khamenei with IRGC and Bassiji commanders

Members of Iranian Revolutionary Guards

1 – Rear Admiral Ali Fadavi, head of IRGC Navy
2 – Brigadier General Mohammad Pakpur, head of IRGC land forces
3 – Brigadier General Hossein Salami, IRGC deputy commander
4 – Mohammad Reza Naghdi, Bassiji commander
5 – Rostam Ghasemi, head of  Khatam al-Anbia
6 – Parviz Fattah, deputy manager of Khatam al-Anbia

Sanctioned institutions are as follows

1 – Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps
2 – Missile Command Al-Ghadir
3 – Naserein Vahid
4 – Sepanir (fuel, energy and gas sector belonging to the IRGC)
5 – Qods Corps

Names of corporations, organizations and institutions sanctioned by the European Union

1 – Azarab Industries
2 – Bank Mellat, all branches and related companies
3 – Bank Melli and related companies
4 – Refah Bank
5 – Bank Saderat, all branches and related companies
6 – Banque Sina
7 – ISNICO Industrial Company
8 – Etemad Amin Company
9 – Saderat Development Bank of Iran, all branches
10 – Fajr Aviation & Composite Industries
11 – Fulmen Company (related to Fordou Qom)
12 – Future Bank, based in Bahrain
13 – Iran’s Industrial Development & Renovation Organization
14 – Aerospace Industries Organization
15 – Iran Aircraft Industries
16 – Iran Centrifuge Technology Company
17 – Iran Communication Industry
18 – Iran Insurance Company
19 – Iran Aviation Industries Organization
20 – Isfahan Optics Company
21 – Javedan Mehr Toos Company
22 – Petroleum Products Company
23 – Arak Machinery Industry (car plant)
24 – Construction Management nuclear power plants
25 – Partou San’at Company
26 – Non-Operative Defence organization; commanded by IRGC member Gholamreza Jalali
27 – Post Bank
28 – Company Raka, linked to Electric Goods Company
29 – Institute for Nuclear Technology Research
30 – Schiller Novin; owned by Defence Industries Organization
31 – Industrial Group Martyr Ahmad Gholami
32 – Improved Industry Index company
33 – Technology Cooperation Office, controlled by the president’s office
34 – Yasa Part, all branches and related companies
35 – Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines (IRISL), all 24 branches

Most of the twenty-four shipping companies are stationed in Iran, but some of them are located in countries as China, Malta, Singapore, Great Britain, the United Arabic Emirates and Germany.

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