OFAC Sanctions Network in China, Iran Shipping Controlled Chemicals to Iran
The Office of Foreign Assets Control this week sanctioned six entities and six people based in Iran and China for their ties to a network that buys ballistic missile propellant ingredients for Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. OFAC said the network has specifically provided Iran with sodium perchlorate, which is used to produce ammonium perchlorate, a substance subject to export controls by the multilateral Missile Technology Control Regime. The network has also supplied Iran with dioctyl sebacate, a chemical used in ballistic missiles.
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The sanctions target Iran-based Saman Tejarat Barman Trading Company and the company's associate, Mohammad Asgari, for coordinating shipments of sodium perchlorate from China to Iran with China-based Shenzhen Amor Logistics Co Ltd. OFAC also designated Iran-based Abed Zargar Bab Aldashti, Hamed Zargar Bab Aldashti and Zahra Zargar Bab Aldashti for being key leaders of Saman Tejarat Barman Trading Company, and it sanctioned Forough Modarres Fathi and Abbas Pour Kazemi, the company's vice chair and chief inspector, respectively. China-based Dongying Weiaien Chemical Co Ltd also supplied dioctyl sebacate to Saman Tejarat Barman Trading Company, OFAC said.
The agency also sanctioned China-based Yanling Chuanxing Chemical Plant General Partnership for shipping sodium chlorate, which is used to produce sodium perchlorate and ammonium perchlorate, on behalf of Shenzhen Amor. China-based China Chlorate Tech Co Limited was designated for transfering funds to Yanling Chuanxing Chemical Plant and describing Yanling Chuanxing Chemical Plant as its "factory," OFAC said, while China-based Yanling Lingfeng Chlorate Co Ltd has received funds from China Chlorate Tech and "shares personnel" with that company and Yanling Chuanxing Chemical Plant.