Javad GHAFFARHADDADI

Iran

1964-09-23

Male

Iran

F57122360, Passport

Military

Javad Ghaffarhaddadi (Ghaffarhaddadi), known also as Javad Ghaffari, serves the head of the IRGC-Intelligence Organization’s Special Operations division, a position he has held since at least early 2022. The IRGC-IO has played a key role in targeting critics of the Iranian regime abroad, including the 2019 kidnapping of France-based journalist and political refugee Ruhollah Zam, which ultimately led to his execution in Iran. The IRGC-IO has played a similar role at home, detaining and interrogating Iranians that have taken part in protests against the regime. An IRGC-IO operative who had been working with the U.S.-designated, Iran-backed terrorist organization Harakat al-Nujaba was arrested in Iraq recently in connection with the November 2022 murder in Baghdad of a U.S. citizen, educator Stephen Troell. Ghaffarhaddadi is being designated pursuant to E.O. 13553 for having acted or purported to act for or on behalf of, directly or indirectly, the IRGC. The IRGC-IO was designated pursuant to E.O. 14078 on April 27, 2023 for its role in the hostage-taking or wrongful detention of U.S. nationals in Iran.

US

Subject to Secondary Sanctions

https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/jy2587

2024-09-18

US

Iranian Financial Sanctions Regulations, 31 CFR Part 561

OFAC country specific

Iran

Blocking Property, Trade sanctions

• https://ofac.treasury.gov/faqs/topic/1551

On August 16, 2010, OFAC issued the Iranian Financial Sanctions Regulations, 31 CFR part 561 (75 FR 49836, August 16, 2010) (IFSR) to implement provisions of the Comprehensive Iran Sanctions, Accountability, and Divestment Act of 2010 (Pub. L. 111–195) (22 U.S.C. 8501–8551). Since then, OFAC has amended the IFSR several times.

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