Info:
Owned or controlled by the Government of Iran;
Also Known As:
Khavarmianeh Bank
Country:
Iran
Address:
No. 22, Second Floor Sabounchi St.Shahid Beheshti Ave. Tehran, Iran
No. 2, 5th St., Ahmad Qasir (Bokharest) Ave.,Tehran, Iran
Phone:
(+9821) 42178000
Website:
www.middleeastbank.ir
E-mail:
info@middleeastbank.ir
Person of interests:
Parviz Aghili Kermani
Khosrow Nayebi-Ahranjani
Reason for the color:
» Added to the Specially Designated Nationals (SDN) list maintained by the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) on October 8, 2020 pursuant to Executive Order 13902, which provides authority to identify and impose sanctions on key sectors of Iran’s economy in order to deny the Iranian government financial resources that may be used to fund and support its nuclear program, missile development, terrorism and terrorist proxy networks, and malign regional influence;
Under the provisions of E.O. 13902, the Secretary of the Treasury identified the financial sector of Iran’s economy as an additional avenue that funds the Iranian government’s malign activities;
The banks sanctioned today are subject to the supervision and regulation by the Central Bank of Iran (CBI), which was previously designated under E.O. 13224 for providing support to the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), its Qods Force (IRGC-QF), and its terrorist proxy, Hizballah;
» Added to the Specially Designated Nationals (SDN) list maintained by the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) on 05/11/2018, pursuant to Executive Order 13224;
» Added to the Specially Designated Nationals (SDN) list maintained by the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) on 08/29/2014, pursuant to Executive Order 13224;
» Removed from the SDN list in January 2016 as part of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action;