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The Council implemented Regulation (EU) 2023/1529 (the EU's dedicated Iran military-support-to-Russia sanctions regime) with a new tranche of listings: 4 natural persons and 6 legal entities, bringing the cumulative total under this regime to 24 individuals and 26 entities. The regime targets Iran's two principal weapons-export programmes that materially assist Russia's war in Ukraine — UAV manufacturing and ballistic-missile production.
On the UAV side, Fanavaran Sanat Ertebatat Company supplies critical electronic components and jam-resistant guidance systems, while Sahara Thunder is named as an Iranian import-export trading front company used to move these components. On the missile side, Shahid Bagheri Industrial Group manufactures solid-fuel ballistic missiles, Khojir Missile Development and Production is a listed production site/organisation, and Pishgaman Tejarat Rafi Novin Co. is named as a procurement vehicle for ammonium perchlorate, a key solid-fuel missile propellant.
Listing triggers an EU-wide asset freeze (funds and economic resources) and a prohibition on making funds or resources available to the listed parties, consistent with the EU's standard restrictive-measures mechanism.
counterparties against this listing tranche, particularly any Iranian trading intermediaries resembling Sahara Thunder's front-company profile.
Iran-linked procurement entities carries elevated diversion-control risk.
against the same Iran missile/UAV procurement ecosystem (see the western-russia-sanctions theme for the broader Iran-Russia and Russia-direct sanctions architecture).
4 individuals and 6 entities) was not directly retrieved — the EUR-Lex page summary was used; the Official Journal PDF should be checked for the complete roster and any narrative "reasons for listing" text.
UK sanctions designations already in the register.