Connected entities with Iranian Special Police Forces – NOPO – networks
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Logo / Image | Name | Status | Activities | Country |
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Headquarters for Enjoining Right and Forbidding Evil | Top Alert – Entity designated / sanctioned for terror, WMD and human rights violation | The Headquarters for Enjoining Right and Forbidding Evil is a government institution, responsible for determining and enforcing excessively strict behavioural models in society | Iran | |
Kiyumars Heidari | Top Alert – Entity designated / sanctioned for terror, WMD and human rights violation | Kiyumars Heidari is the commander of the Iranian Army’s Ground Forces. He has publicly admitted to his and his force’s involvement in the violent response to the November 2019 protests that led to the death of at least hundreds of protesters | Iran | |
Manouchehr Amanollahi | Top Alert – Entity designated / sanctioned for terror, WMD and human rights violation | Manouchehr Amanollahi is the LEF commander of Iran’s Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari province. During his tenure, the LEF suppressed 2021 protests in the province in response to a lack of water, and 2022 protests in response to food rationing | Iran | |
Qasem Rezaei | Top Alert – Entity designated / sanctioned for terror, WMD and human rights violation | Qasem Rezaei was appointed the LEF deputy commander in May 2020. As a senior LEF official, Rezaei is responsible for serious human rights violations committed by the LEF under his command | Iran | |
Salar Abnoush | Top Alert – Entity designated / sanctioned for terror, WMD and human rights violation | Salar Abnoush is the deputy commander of the Basij and has publicly described his command-and-control role over Basij forces during the November 2019 protests | Iran | |
Haj Ahmad Mirzaei | Top Alert – Entity designated / sanctioned for terror, WMD and human rights violation | Haj Ahmad Mirzaei served as the head of the Tehran division of Iran’s Morality Police during Amini’s unjust detention and untimely death | Iran | |
Mohammad Rostami Cheshmeh Gachi | Top Alert – Entity designated / sanctioned for terror, WMD and human rights violation | Mohammad Rostami Cheshmeh Gachi serves as the head of Iran’s Morality Police, which has demonstrated a culture of violence and excessive force under his command | Iran | |
Mohsen Ebrahimi | Top Alert – Entity designated / sanctioned for terror, WMD and human rights violation | Mohsen Ebrahimi was appointed commander of NOPO in 2016 and has similarly overseen the unit during several subsequent periods of nationwide unrest during which NOPO employed excessive and lethal force against Iranian unarmed protestors | Iran | |
LEF Special Units | Top Alert – Entity designated / sanctioned for terror, WMD and human rights violation | LEF Special Units are the dedicated crowd control and protest suppression unit of Iran’s LEF, one of the Government of Iran’s main security apparatuses that played a key role in the crackdown on protesters in the aftermath of the disputed Iranian presidential election in 2009 | Iran | |
Law Enforcement Forces – LEF | Top Alert - Designated / Sanctioned / Illicit entities | Sanctioned for human rights abuses engaged in by officials of the Government of Iran and persons acting on behalf of the Government of Iran | Iran |