UK Lists Iranian Individuals, Entity for Supplying Russia With UAVs
The U.K. added three Iranian individuals and one Iranian entity to its Russia sanctions regime pertaining to their involvement in sending unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to the Russian military for use in Ukraine, the Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation said…
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Oct. 20. The individuals, Saeed Aghajani, head of the Iran Revolutionary Guard Corps Aerospace Force UAV command; Mohammad Bagheri, chairman of the Armed Forces General Staff; and Seyed Hojjatollah Qureishi, head of the Iranian Defense Ministry's Supply and Logistics Division, are subject to an asset freeze and travel ban. OFSI also sanctioned Shahed Aviation Industries, an Iranian UAV manufacturer. The OFSI notice amended the entry for Oleksandr Saulenko, a senior official installed in the Russian administration of Berdyansk in the temporarily controlled area of Zaporizhzhia, regarding date of birth. The U.K.'s move follows the EU's listing of the same individuals and entity (see 2210200014).