Info:
A defense firm that provides maintenance and overhaul services for Iran’s military helicopters and aircraft;
Subordinate to the Iranian Aviation Industries Organization (IAIO), which is overseen by Iran’s Ministry of Defense Armed Forces Logistics (MODAFL);
Repair services include annealing, hardening, tempering, aging, stress relief, hydraulic chromium plating, and nickel plating; repairs fuel systems, hydraulics, pneumatics, electronics, and avionics systems; also repairs gas turbines; other services include metallurgical and chemical laboratory services, analysis of aerodynamic fatigue and fluid mechanics, and non-destructive testing; overhauls, repairs, and manufactures replacement parts for C-130 cargo planes; oversees a calibration laboratory;
Uses Turbine Engineering Manufacturing (TEM) as a front company for covert procurement; reportedly maintains facilities at Khatami Air Base and Mehrabad Air Base; has an Education and Research Department with connections to 24 different universities, including Malek-Ashtar University of Technology;
Intended recipient of aluminum alloy tubing and round bar OD (85 – 330mm), the procurement of which was denied on March 21, 2005, by a member state of the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG); intended recipient of aluminum alloy round bar OD (85 – 165mm), the procurement of which was denied on May 20, 2004, by a member state of the NSG; intended recipient of aluminum alloy round bar (150 – 200mm diameter), the procurement of which was denied on April 8, 2004, by a member state of the NSG;
In August 2005 was the recipient of a shipment of 50 “5th stage vanes,” an aircraft component, exported illegally from the United States by the Irish company Mac Aviation Group; allegedly paid two Iranian trading companies, Tehran-based Ariasa, AG and Kish Island-based Onakish, to place the order with Mac Aviation Group, which bought U.S.-origin goods and shipped them to IACI via trading companies in the United Arab Emirates or freight forwarders in Malaysia;
Company officials include Amir Reza Izadi (director), Abolhassan Hosseinpour (managing director), and Mr. Moazzai (engineer);
Also Known As:
Iran Aircraft Industries Co.
SAHA
IAI
Involved In:
Nuclear Weapon Program
Missile Weapon Program
Military Weapon Program
Country:
Iran
Address:
– Special Karaj Road, Mehrabad Airport, Tehran
– Sepahbod Gharani 36, Tehran
– Plant No. 1, opp. of 2nd Phase of Shahrak-e Ekbatan, Karaj Special Rd., Mehrabad Airport, 10000 Tehran, Iran
– P.O. Box 83145/311, Tehran, Iran
– P.O. Box 14155/1449, Tehran, Iran
– Ekbatan City, Karaj Rd., Azadi Sq., Tehran, Iran
Phone:
(+98-21) 6035606, +98(21)913319
Website:
www.iaci.ir
E-mail:
info@ iaci.ir
Reason for the color:
» Added on Consolidated List Of Financial Sanctions Targets in the UK;
» Listed by the European Union on July 26, 2010 as an entity linked to Iran’s proliferation-sensitive nuclear activities or Iran’s development of nuclear weapon delivery systems; with some exceptions, European Union member states must freeze all funds and economic resources owned, held or controlled by the listed entity, and prevent funds or economic resources from being made available to it;
» Sensitive U.S. Technology routed to Iran Aircraft Industries;