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Autonomous Sanctions (Designated Persons and Entities and Declared Persons – Iran) Amendment (No. 1) Instrument 2024

I, PENNY WONG, Minister for Foreign Affairs, make the following instrument.

Dated 12th May 2024

PENNY WONG

Minister for Foreign Affairs

 

 

Contents

1  Name 

2  Commencement

3  Authority

4  Schedules

Schedule 1—Amendments

1  Name

  This instrument is the Autonomous Sanctions (Designated Persons and Entities and Declared Persons – Iran) Amendment (No. 1) Instrument 2024.

2  Commencement

 (1) Each provision of this instrument specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.

 

Commencement information

Column 1

Column 2

Column 3

Provisions

Commencement

Date/Details

1.  The whole of this instrument

The day after this instrument is registered.

 

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this instrument.

 (2) Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this instrument. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this instrument.

3  Authority

  This instrument is made under paragraphs 6(a) and 6(b) of the Autonomous Sanctions Regulations 2011.

4  Schedules

  Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.

Schedule 1Amendments

 

Autonomous Sanctions (Designated Persons and Entities and Declared Persons – Iran) List 2012

1  Part 1 of Schedule 1 (at the end of the table)

 

Add:

 

51

Name of individual

Mohammad Reza ASHTIANI

 

Also known as

Mohammad Reza QARA'I-ASHTIANI; 

Mohammad-Reza ASHTIANI

 

Date of birth

a) 1960;

b) 1961

 

Place of birth

Tehran, Iran

 

Citizenship

Iranian

 

Instrument of first designation and declaration

Autonomous Sanctions (Designated Persons and Entities and Declared Persons – Iran) Amendment (No. 1) Instrument 2024

 

Additional Information

Brigadier General Mohammad Reza ASHTIANI is Iran’s Minister of Defence and Armed Forces Logistics.

52

Name of individual

Esmail QAANI

 

Also known as

Esmail GHANI;

Esmaeil AKBARNEJAD;

Ismail NEZHAD; 

Esma'il QA’ANI;

Esmail GHAANI

 

Date of birth

a)    8 August 1957;

b)    1957

 

Place of birth

Mashhad, Iran

 

Citizenship

Iranian

 

Instrument of first designation and declaration

Autonomous Sanctions (Designated Persons and Entities and Declared Persons – Iran) Amendment (No. 1) Instrument 2024

 

Additional Information

Brigadier General Esmail QAANI serves as Commander of the IRGC Qods Force (IRGC QF).

53

Name of individual

Gholam RASHID

 

Also known as

Gholamali RASHID;

Gholamali RASHID ALINOUR

 

Date of birth

a) 1953;

b) 1954

 

Place of birth

a) Dezful, Iran;

b) Dezful, Khuzestan

 

Citizenship

Iranian

 

Instrument of first designation and declaration

Autonomous Sanctions (Designated Persons and Entities and Declared Persons – Iran) Amendment (No. 1) Instrument 2024

 

Additional Information

Major General Gholam RASHID serves as Commander of Khatam al-Anbiya Central Headquarters (KCHQ).

54

Name of individual

Amir HATAMI

 

Date of birth

1966

 

Place of birth

Zanjan, Iran

 

Citizenship

Iranian

 

Instrument of first designation and declaration

Autonomous Sanctions (Designated Persons and Entities and Declared Persons – Iran) Amendment (No. 1) Instrument 2024

 

Additional Information

Brigadier General Amir HATAMI was appointed as Advisor to the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces in Army Affairs.

HATAMI previously served as Minister of Defence and Armed Forces Logistics from 2017 to 2021.

55

Name of individual

Mehdi GOGERDCHIAN

 

Also known as

Mehdi GUGERDCHIAN

 

Date of birth

14 August 1975

 

Citizenship

Iranian

 

Instrument of first designation and declaration

Autonomous Sanctions (Designated Persons and Entities and Declared Persons – Iran) Amendment (No. 1) Instrument 2024

 

Additional Information

Mehdi GOGERDCHIAN is Managing Director and board member of Iranian-based company Iran Aircraft Manufacturing Industries (HESA).

 

2  Part 2 of Schedule 1 (at the end of the table)

 

Add:

 

139

Name of entity

AIRCRAFT ENGINES DESIGN AND MANUFACTURING COMPANY

 

Also known as

DESIGN AND MANUFACTURING OF AERO ENGINES COMPANY;

DAMA;

TURBINE ENGINEERING MANUFACTURING;

TEM;

T.E.M. Co.

 

Address

Karaj Makhsoos Road, Amir Sarlashgar Shahid Hossein Lashgari, Shishe Mina Boulevard, Number 0, Ground Floor;

Tehran, Iran

 

Instrument of first designation

Autonomous Sanctions (Designated Persons and Entities and Declared Persons – Iran) Amendment (No. 1) Instrument 2024

 

Additional Information

DAMA is a subsidiary of the IRGC Aerospace Force and has carried out covert procurement activities for HESA

140

Name of entity

FANAVARAN SANAT ERTEBATAT COMPANY

 

Also known as

FSE;

COMMUNICATION INDUSTRY TECHNOLOGY

 

Address

Yousef Abad Neighborhood, Kordestan Express Way, Seyyed Sohrab Akhlaqi 37 Street, Number 38, First Floor;

Tehran, Iran

 

Instrument of first designation

Autonomous Sanctions (Designated Persons and Entities and Declared Persons – Iran) Amendment (No. 1) Instrument 2024

 

Additional Information

Iranian-based company that produces jam-resistant missile guidance systems for Iran’s IRGC’s Aerospace Force Self Sufficiency Jihad Organization (ASF SSJO)

141

Name of entity

THE ISLAMIC REVOLUTIONARY GUARD CORPS NAVY

 

Also known as

IRGC NAVY;

ISLAMIC REVOLUTION GUARD CORPS NAVAL FORCE

 

Address

Tehran, Iran

 

Instrument of first designation

Autonomous Sanctions (Designated Persons and Entities and Declared Persons – Iran) Amendment (No. 1) Instrument 2024

 

Additional Information

The IRGC NAVY, separate from Iran’s conventional naval branch (which operates in parallel), is responsible for patrolling Iran’s maritime borders, including the Strait of Hormuz.