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# 									Report to Congress on Identification of, and Immigration Restrictions on, Senior Officials of the Government of Iran and their Family Members							

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Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs

January 12, 2021

Section 221 of the Iran Threat Reduction and Syria Human Rights Act of 2012, Public Law 112-158 (TRA), enacted on August 10, 2012, requires the  President to publish a list of individuals whom the President has determined aresenior Iranian officials involved in Iran’s illicit nuclear activities or proliferation of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) or delivery systems for WMD; support for international terrorism; or the commission of serious human rights abuses against Iranian citizens or their family members, as well as family members of such officials. This report, prepared annually by the Department of State, is being submitted to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, the Committee on Ways and Means, and the Committee on Financial Services of the House of Representatives, and the Committee on Foreign Relations, the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, and the Committee on Finance of the Senate.

The Department of State identified the following individuals as meeting the criteria for immigration restrictions under TRA Section 221, with titles current at the time of the designation:
        - **Abdollah Araghi**, Deputy Commander of IRGC Ground Forces
        - **Ali Fadavi**, Commander of IRGC Navy
        - **Hassan Firouzabadi**, former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
        - **Mohammad Ali Jafari-Najafabadi**, IRGC Commander
        - **Ismail Ahmadi Moghadam**, former Commander of Law  Enforcement Forces 
        - **Qolam-Hossein Mohseni-Ejei**, former Prosecutor-General of Iran
        - **Mohammad Reza Naqdi**, Commander of the Basij
        - **Ahmad-Reza Radan**, former Deputy Chief of Iran’s National  Police
        - **Hossein Salami**, IRGC Deputy Commander
        - **Hossein Taeb**, IRGC Commander for Intelligence
        - **Ali Akbar Ahmadian**, Head of IRGC Strategic Center
        - **Esmail Ghani**, Senior IRGC Qods Force Official
        - **Ali Akbar Tabatabaie**, Senior IRGC Qods Force Official 
        - **Mohammad Reza Zahedi**, IRGC Ground Forces Commander
        - **Ali Fazli**, Deputy Commander of the Basij
        - **Sohrab Soleimani**, Supervisor of the Office of the Deputy for  Security and Law Enforcement of the State Prisons Organization,  former Director General of the Tehran Prisons Organization
        - **Sadegh Larijani**, Head of the Judiciary 
        - **Abdolhamid Mohtasham**, founding member and key leader of  Ansar-e Hizballah 
        - **Hossein Allahkaram**, co-founder and leader of Ansar-e Hizballah 
        - **Hamid Ostad**, founder of Mashad branch of Ansar-e Hizballah 
        - **Mahmud Bagheri Kazemabad**, Commander of IRGC Aerospace   Forces Al-Ghadir Missile Command 
        - **Mohammad Agha Ja’fari**, Senior official of IRGC Aerospace  Forces Al-Ghadir Missile Command 
        - **Valiollah Seif**, Iran Central Bank Governor, for assisting,  sponsoring, or providing financial support for IRGC Qods Force
        - **Ali Husseini Khamenei**, Supreme Leader, for support of the  IRGC, a foreign terrorist organization 
        - **Mojtaba Khamenei**, son of Supreme Leader 
        - **Hassan Rouhani**, President of Iran, for support of the IRGC, a  foreign terrorist organization 
        - **Mohammad Javad Zarif**, Foreign Minister, for support of the  IRGC, a foreign terrorist organization 
        - **Mohammad Javad Azari Jahromi**, Minister of Information and  Communications Technology, for serious human rights abuses 
        - **Ebrahim Raisi**, head of Iran’s judiciary, for serious human rights  abuses 
        - **Mohammad Bagheri**, chief of Armed Forces General Staff, for support of the IRGC, a foreign terrorist organization 
        - **Hossein Dehghan**, IRGC Brigadier General 
        - **Gholam Ali Rashid**, IRGC commander 
        - **Rostam Qasemi**, Senior IRGC  Qods Force Official
        - **Ali Reza Tangsiri**, IRGC Naval Commander 
        - **Amirali Hajizadeh**, commander of the IRGC Aerospace Force 
        - **Mohammad Pakpour**, commander of IRGC Ground Forces 
        - **Abbas Gholamshahi**, IRGCN 1st Naval District Commander 
        - **Ramezan Zirahi**, IRGCN 2nd Naval District Commander
        - **Yadollah Badin**, IRGCN 3rd Naval District Commander 
        - **Mansur Ravankar**, IRGCN 4th Naval District Commander 
        - **Commander Ali Ozma’I**, IRGCN 5th Naval District 
        - **Abdolnaser Hemmati**,  Iran Central Bank Governor, for assisting,  sponsoring, or providing financial support for IRGC Qods Force  
        - Mehran Babri , Director of Shahid Meisami Group
        - Amjad Sazgar , Managing Director of Atomic Energy   Organization of Iran 
        - **Majid Agha’i**, Manager of Atomic Energy Organization of Iran  subsidiary
        - **Hasan Shahvarpour**, Brigadier General and Commander of the  IRGC Vali Asr forces of Khuzestan Province, for serious human  rights abuses 
        - **Abdolreza Rahmani Fazli**, Minister of Interior and Chair of  National Domestic Security Council, for serious human rights  abuses 
        - **Mohammad Moghisseh**, Judge and Head of Tehran Revolutionary  Court Branch 28, for serious human rights abuses
        - **Abdolghassem Salavati**, Judge and Head of Tehran Revolutionary  Court Branch 15, for serious human rights abuses
        - **Seyed Mahmoud Sadati**, Judge of Shiraz Revolutionary Court  Branch 1, for serious human rights abuses
        - **Mohammad Soltani**, Judge of Mashhad Revolutionary Court, for  serious human rights abuses
        - **Heidar Abbaszadeh**, Brigadier General of the IRGC and  Commander of Provincial Law Enforcement Forces in Khuzestan  Province, for serious human rights abuses 
        - **Reza Papi**, Colonel in IRGC and Police Chief of Mahshahr in  Khuzestan Province, for serious human rights abuses
        - **Seyyed Mahmoud Alavi**, Minister of Intelligence, for serious  human rights abuses
        - **Ali Fallahian**, former head of Iran’s intelligence service (MOIS),  for serious human rights abuses
        - **Hojatollah Khodaei Souri**, former director of Evin Prison, for  serious human rights abuses
        - **Hasan Irlu**, Senior IRGC Qods Force Official and Iranian envoy to  the Houthis
        - **Mohammad Hejazi**, Senior IRGC Qods Force Official

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