The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control has designated 14 individuals, entities and aircraft in Iran, Turkey and the United Arab Emirates for involvement in procuring or transporting weapons or weapons components on behalf of the Iranian regime, including networks supporting Shahed-series UAVs, ballistic-missile inputs and Iran’s airline Mahan Air. The action was taken under Executive Order 13382 and Executive Order 13224, as amended, and includes the identification of two Boeing 777 aircraft owned and operated by Mahan Air, EP-MTE and EP-MTB, as property in which the airline has an interest. The designations include Kamal Sabah Balkhkanlu, Mohammad Vahidi and Danial Khalili for supporting Pishgam Electronic Safeh Company and its CEO Hamid Reza Janghorbani, tied to procurement of servomotors found in downed Shahed-136 UAVs for the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Aerospace Force Self Sufficiency Jihad Organization. OFAC also designated Turkey-based Emti Fiber Textile Import Export Trade Limited Company for shipping cotton linters to Pardisan Rezvan Shargh, and designated Hamidreza Roknifard and Mostafa Roknifard for acting for Adak Pargas Pars Trading Company. Mahan Air-linked listings cover Sepehr Kaveh Kish International Trading Company, its officials GholamAbbas Ataei Aghdam and Jamshid Hosseinzadeh, Mahan Air manager Mohammad Hossein Mahdian, Saman Air Services Company and Dubai-based Chabok FZCO. As a result, property and interests in property of the designated or blocked persons within U.S. jurisdiction are blocked (including entities owned 50% or more by blocked persons), U.S. persons are generally prohibited from dealings involving such property, and certain significant transactions may expose foreign financial institutions to correspondent or payable-through account restrictions.
U.S. Department of the Treasury 2026-04-21
U.S. Department of the Treasury targets 14 Iran-linked weapons procurement and Mahan Air actors and flags two Boeing 777 aircraft as blocked property
The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control has designated 14 individuals, entities and aircraft in Iran, Turkey and the United Arab Emirates for procuring or transporting weapons and components for the Iranian regime, including networks supporting Shahed-series unmanned aerial vehicles, ballistic-missile inputs and Mahan Air. The action, taken under Executive Orders 13382 and 13224, includes two Boeing 777 aircraft owned by Mahan Air and multiple trading companies and facilitators, with all property within U.S. jurisdiction blocked and U.S. persons generally prohibited from dealings.