The UK government has published a new Financial Sanctions Notice regarding sanctions measures with respect to persons and entities that are engaged in or supportive of human rights abuses in Iran pursuant to Statutory Instrument SI 2019/134, the „Iran (Sanctions) (Human Rights) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019“. Specifically, the government informs that it has updated its sanction list by adding five persons and two entities (bodies) to the list who are now subject to asset freezing measures. The affected parties are the following:
##### Individuals
(1) Salar ABNOUSH (Group ID: 15713)
(2) Ahmad FAZELIAN (Group ID: 15709)
(3) Kiyumars HEIDARI (Group ID: 15711)
(4) Hossein NEJAT (Group ID: 15710)
(5) Qasem REZAEI (Group ID: 15712)
##### Entities or bodies
(1) BASIJ RESISTANCE FORCE (Group ID: 15707)
(2) BASIJ COOPERATIVE FOUNDATION (Group ID: 15708)
Details on the added records may be found in the Annex of the notice (link background, item #1) or if you follow above noted link. The new consolidated list may be accessed via this link.