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European
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DECISIONS
COUNCIL IMPLEMENTING DECISION 2011/670/CFSP
of 10 October 2011
implementing Decision 2011/235/CFSP concerning restrictive measures directed against certain
persons and entities in view of the situation in Iran
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,
HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:
Having regard to the Treaty on European Union, and in
Article 1
particular Article 31(2) thereof,
The persons listed in the Annex to this Decision shall be added
Having regard to Council Decision 2011/235/CFSP of 12 April
to the list set out in the Annex to Decision 2011/235/CFSP.
2011 concerning restrictive measures directed against certain
persons and entities in view of the situation in Iran ( 1 ), and in
Article 2
particular Article 3(1) thereof,
This Decision shall enter into force on the day of its adoption.
Whereas:
(1) On
12
April
2011,
the
Council
adopted
Decision Done at Luxembourg, 10 October 2011.
2011/235/CFSP.
(2) In
view
of
the
ongoing
human
rights
abuses
in
Iran,
For the Council
additional persons should be included in the list of
persons and entities subject to restrictive measures as
The President
set out in the Annex to Decision 2011/235/CFSP,
C. ASHTON
( 1 ) OJ L 100, 14.4.2011, p. 51.

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L 267/14
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Official Journal of the European Union
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ANNEX
List of persons referred to in Article 1
Persons
Name
Identifying
information
Reasons Date
of
listing
1. ABBASZADEH-
Interior Ministry’s political director.
10.10.2011
MESHKINI,
Mahmoud
As Head of the Article 10 Committee of the Law on
Activities of Political Parties and Groups he is in charge
of authorising demonstrations and other public events
and registering political parties.
In 2010, he suspended the activities of two reformist
political parties linked to Mousavi – the Islamic Iran
Participation Front and the Islamic Revolution
Mujahedeen Organization.
From 2009 onwards he has consistently and
continuously prohibited all non-governmental gatherings,
therefore denying a constitutional right to protest and
leading to many arrests of peaceful demonstrators in
contravention of the right to freedom of assembly.
In 2009 he also denied the opposition a permit for a
ceremony to mourn people killed in protests over the
Presidential elections.
2. AKBARSHAHI
Ali-
Commander of Tehran Police.
10.10.2011
Reza
His police force is responsible for the use of extrajudicial
force on suspects during arrest and pre-trial detention, as
reported to Human Rights Watch (HRW) by witnesses to
the post-election crackdown.
Tehran police were implicated in raids on Tehran
university dorms in June 2009, when according to an
Iranian Majlis commission, more than 100 students
were injured by the police and Basiji.
3. AKHARIAN
Hassan Keeper
of
Ward
1
of
Radjaishahr
prison,
Karadj.
10.10.2011
Several former detainees have denounced the use of
torture by him, as well as orders he gave to prevent
inmates receiving medical assistance. According to a tran
script of one reported detainee in the Radjaishahr prison,
wardens all beat him severely, with Akharian’s full
knowledge.
There is also at least one reported case of the death of a
detainee, Mohsen Beikvand, under Akharian’s
wardenship.
4. AVAEE
Seyyed
Ali-
President of the Tehran Judiciary.
10.10.2011
Reza (Aka: AVAEE
Seyyed Alireza)
As President of the Tehran Judiciary he has been
responsible for human rights violations, arbitrary
arrests, denials of prisoners’ rights and an increase in
executions.
5. BANESHI
Jaber Prosecutor
of
Shiraz.
10.10.2011
He is responsible for the excessive and increasing use of
the death penalty by handing down dozens of death
sentences. Prosecutor during the Shiraz bombing case
in 2008, which was used by the regime to sentence to
death several opponents of the regime.

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Name
Identifying
information
Reasons Date
of
listing
6. FIRUZABADI
Maj- POB:
Chief of Staff of Iran’s Armed Forces.
10.10.2011
Gen Dr Seyyed
Mashad.
Hasan (Aka:
Also a member of the Supreme National Security Council
FIRUZABADI Maj-
DOB:
(SNSC) the highest military commander responsible for
Gen Dr Seyed
3.2.1951
directing all military divisions and policies, including the
Hassan;
Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) and police.
FIROUZABADI Maj-
Forces under his formal chain of command brutally
Gen Dr Seyyed
suppressed peaceful protestors and perpetrated mass
Hasan;
detentions.
FIROUZABADI Maj-
Gen Dr Seyed
Hassan)
7. GANJI
Mostafa
Prosecutor-General of Qom.
10.10.2011
Barzegar
He is responsible for the arbitrary detention and
maltreatment of dozens of offenders in Qom. He is
complicit in a grave violation of the right to due
process, contributing to the excessive and increasing
use of the death penalty and a sharp increase in
executions since the beginning of the year.
8. HABIBI
Mohammad
Deputy Prosecutor of Isfahan.
10.10.2011
Reza
Complicit in proceedings denying defendants a fair trial –
such as Abdollah Fathi executed in May 2011 after his
right to be heard and mental health issues were ignored
by Habibi during his trial in March 2010.
He is, therefore, complicit in a grave violation of the right
to due process, contributing to the excessive and
increasing use of the death penalty and a sharp
increase in executions since the beginning of the year.
9. HEJAZI
Mohammad POB:
Head of the IRGC’s Sarollah Corps in Tehran, former
10.10.2011
Ispahan
Head of the Basij Forces.
DOB: 1956
The Sarollah Corps played a central role in the post-
election crackdown.
Mohammad HEJAZI was the author of a letter sent to the
Ministry of Health on 26 June 2009 forbidding the
disclosure of documents or medical records of anyone
injured or hospitalised during post-election events,
implying a cover up.
10. HEYDARI
Nabiollah Head
of
the
Iranian
Airport
Police
Authority.
10.10.2011
He has been instrumental, since June 2009, in arresting
at Imam Khomeini International Airport - including
inside the international zone -Iranian protesters who
were trying to leave the country after the crackdown
started.
11. JAVANI
Yadollah IRGC
Political
Bureau
Chief.
10.10.2011
He was one of the first high-ranking officials to demand
Moussavi, Karroubi and Khatami’s arrest. He has
repeatedly supported the use of violence and harsh inter
rogation tactics against post-election protesters (justifying
TV-recorded confessions), including ordering the extraju
dicial maltreatment of dissidents through publications
circulated to the IRGC and Basij.

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Name
Identifying
information
Reasons Date
of
listing
12. JAZAYERI
Massoud
Deputy Chief of Staff of Iran’s Joint Armed Forces, in
10.10.2011
charge of cultural affairs (aka State Defence Publicity
HQ).
He actively collaborated in repression as deputy chief of
staff. He warned in a Kayhan interview that many
protesters inside and outside Iran had been identified
and would be dealt with at the right time. He has
openly called for the suppression of foreign mass
media outlets and the Iranian opposition. In 2010, he
asked the government to pass tougher laws against
Iranians who cooperate with foreign media sources.
13. JOKAR
Mohammad
Commander of Student Basij Forces.
10.10.2011
Saleh
In this capacity he was actively involved in suppressing
protests in schools and universities and extra-judicial
detention of activists and journalists.
14. KAMALIAN
Behrouz POB:
Tehran Head of the IRGC- linked “Ashiyaneh” cyber group.
10.10.2011
DOB: 1983
The “Ashiyaneh” Digital Security, founded by Behrouz
Kamalian, is responsible for an intensive cyber-
crackdown both on domestic opponents and reformists
and foreign institutions. On 21 June 2009, the internet
site of the Revolutionary Guard’s Cyber Defence
Command 32 posted still images of the faces of 26
people, allegedly taken during post-election demon
strations. Attached was an appeal to Iranians to
“identify the rioters”.
15. KHALILOLLAHI
Prosecutor of Tabriz.
10.10.2011
Moussa (Aka:
KHALILOLLAHI
He is involved in Sakineh Mohammadi-Ashtiani’s case
Mousa)
and has opposed her release on several occasions and
is complicit in grave violations of the right to due
process.
16. MAHSOULI
Sadeq POB:
Minister of the Interior until August 2009.
10.10.2011
(Aka: MAHSULI,
Oroumieh
Sadeq)
(Iran)
As Interior Minister, Mahsouli had authority over all
police forces, interior ministry security agents, and plain
DOB:
clothes agents. The forces under his direction were
1959/60
responsible for attacks on the dormitories of Tehran
University on 14 June 2009 and the torture of
students in the basement of the Ministry (the notorious
basement level 4). Other protestors were severely abused
at the Kahrizak Detention Center, which was operated by
police under Mahsouli's control.
17. MALEKI
Mojtaba Prosecutor
of
Kermanshah.
10.10.2011
Responsible for a dramatic increase in death sentences,
including seven hangings in one day on 3 January 2010
in Kermanshah’s central prison, following Judge Maleki’s
indictment. He is, therefore, responsible for the excessive
and increasing use of the death penalty.
18. OMIDI
Mehrdad
Head of the Computer Crimes Unit of the Iranian Police.
10.10.2011
He is responsible for thousands of investigations and
indictments of reformists and political opponents using
the Internet. He is thus responsible for grave human
rights violations in the repression of persons who
speak out in defence of their legitimate rights, including
freedom of expression.

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Name
Identifying
information
Reasons Date
of
listing
19. SALARKIA
Deputy to the Prosecutor-General of Tehran for Prison
10.10.2011
Mahmoud
Affairs.
Directly responsible for many of the arrest warrants
against innocent, peaceful protesters and activists. Many
reports from human rights defenders show that virtually
all those arrested are, on his instruction, held incom
municado without access to their lawyer or families,
and without charge, for varying lengths of time, often
in conditions amounting to enforced disappearance.
Their families are often not notified of the arrest.
20. SOURI
Hojatollah As
head
of
Evin
prison,
he
bears
responsibility
for
severe
10.10.2011
human rights abuses ongoing in this prison, such as
beatings, and mental and sexual abuse.
According to consistent information from different
sources, torture is a common practice in Evin prison.
In Ward 209, many activists are being held for their
peaceful activities in opposition to the ruling
government.
21. TALA
Hossein
(Aka: Head of the Deputy Governor-General ( ″Farmandar ″) of Tehran 10.10.2011
TALA Hosseyn)
Iranian
Province until September 2010, in particular responsible
Tobacco
for the intervention of police forces and therefore for the
Company.
repression of demonstrations.
He received a prize in December 2010 for his role in the
post-election repression.
22. TAMADDON
POB: Shahr IRGC Governor- General of Tehran Province, head of
10.10.2011
Morteza (Aka:
Kord-Isfahan Tehran provincial Public Security Council.
TAMADON
Morteza)
DOB: 1959
In his capacity as governor and head of Tehran provincial
Public Security Council, he bears overall responsibility for
all repressive activities, including cracking down on
political protests since June 2009. He is known for
being personally involved in the harassing of opposition
leaders Karroubi and Moussavi.
23. ZEBHI
Hossein Deputy
to
the
Prosecutor-
General
of
Iran.
10.10.2011
He is in charge of several judicial cases linked to the post-
election protests.
24. BAHRAMI
Head of the judiciary branch of the armed forces.
10.10.2011
Mohammad-Kazem
He is complicit in the repression of peaceful demon
strators.
25. HAJMOHAMMADI
Former judge at the first chamber of the Evin Court, and
10.10.2011
Aziz
now judge at branch 71 of the Tehran Provincial
Criminal Court.
He has conducted several trials of demonstrators, inter
alia that of Abdol-Reza Ghanbari, a teacher arrested in
January 2010 and sentenced to death for his political
activities. The Evin court of first instance had recently
been established within the walls of Evin prison, a fact
welcomed by Jafari Dolatabadi in March 2010. In this
prison some accused persons are confined, mistreated
and forced to make false statements.

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Name
Identifying
information
Reasons Date
of
listing
26. BAGHERI
Vice-chairman of the judiciary administration of South
10.10.2011
Mohammad-Bagher
Khorasan province, in charge of crime prevention.
In addition to his acknowledging, in June 2011, 140
executions for capital offences between March 2010
and March 2011, about 100 other executions are
reported to have taken place in the same period and in
the same province of South Khorasan without either the
families or the lawyers being notified.
He is, therefore, complicit in a grave violation of the right
to due process, contributing to the excessive and
increasing use of the death penalty.
27. BAKHTIARI
Seyyed POB: Mashad Minister of Justice, former Isfahan governor-general and
10.10.2011
Morteza
(Iran)
director of the State Prisons Organisation (until June
2004).
DOB: 1952
As Minister of Justice, he has played a key role in
threatening and harassing the Iranian diaspora by
announcing the establishment of a special court to deal
specifically with Iranians who live outside the country.
With the Tehran Prosecutor’s assistance, two branches of
the courts of first instance and appeal courts and several
branches of the magistrate courts will be assigned to deal
with expatriate affairs.
28. HOSSEINI
Dr
POB:
Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance since 10.10.2011
Mohammad (Aka:
Rafsanjan,
September 2009.
HOSSEYNI, Dr
Kerman
Seyyed Mohammad;
Ex-IRGC, he is complicit in the repression of journalists.
Seyed, Sayyed and
DOB: 1961
Sayyid)
29. MOSLEHI
Heydar
POB: Isfahan Minister of Intelligence.
10.10.2011
(Aka: MOSLEHI
(Iran)
Heidar; MOSLEHI
Under his leadership, the Ministry of Intelligence has
Haidar)
DOB: 1956
continued the practices of widespread arbitrary
detention and persecution of protesters and dissidents.
The Ministry of Intelligence continues to run Ward 209
of Evin Prison, where many activists are being held on
account of their peaceful activities in opposition to the
government in power. Interrogators from the Ministry of
Intelligence have subjected prisoners in Ward 209 to
beatings and mental and sexual abuse. As the Minister
of Intelligence, Moslehi bears responsibility for ongoing
abuse.

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