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OFAC designated Mahmoud Alavi, the head of the regime’s Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS), which has played a key role in the Iranian regime’s brutal human rights abuses against the Iranian people;
MOIS agents are responsible for beatings, sexual abuse, prolonged interrogations, and coerced confessions of prisoners, particularly political prisoners. MOIS has employed mock executions and forms of sexual violence in its interrogations of prisoners, and its agents have arrested and detained members of the Baha’i religion without charges;
MOIS was designated in 2012 pursuant to E.O. 13553, a human rights authority, for being responsible for or complicit in the commission of serious human rights abuses against the Iranian people since June 12, 2009;
Also Known As:
Alavi, Seyed Mahmoud
Alavi, Seyyed Mahmoud
Born:
24 Apr 1954
POB:
Lamard, Fars Province, Iran
Country:
Iran
Nationality:
Iranian
National ID No.:
2296776973 (Iran)