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Mohammad Karami: when referring to peaceful protestors, Karami pledged to “wreak vengeance on the terrorist groups” while he was an IRGC Ground Forces Commander in Sistan and Baluchestan province where over 80 protestors and bystanders were killed in September 2022;
Mohammad Karami is a Brigadier General and commands the IRGC South-East Quds Operational Base in Zahedan in Sistan and Baluchistan Province. The Quds Base is officially tasked with ensuring security in Sistan-Baluchistan, including the Saravan border, between Sistan and Baluchistan and Pakistan. According to public reporting, Karami is responsible for the actions of IRGC officers stationed at the Shamsar Base, who according to Amnesty International on February 22, 2021 fired live ammunition at unarmed fuel porters who were seeking to exercise their freedom of expression;
Karami is being listed by the Department of State and designated by OFAC pursuant to Section 106 of CAATSA;
Involved In:
Human Rights Abuses
Positions:
Commander of Amir-al-Momenin University Complex of the IRGC Ground Force, Isfahan (2016 – 2019)
Commander of Quds Headquarters, South East of Iran (Feb 2019 – present)
Violations:
Killing fuel couriers (Sookhbars) (23 February 2021)
Born:
1960
Country:
Iran
POB:
Urmia, Iran
Nationality:
Iran
Reason for the color:
» UK and international partners have imposed sanctions on 20 February 2023 on 8 senior Iranian figures responsible for repressing their own people;
» 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 December 7, 2021 pursuant to Section 106 of CAATSA;