HomeBureau of Near Eastern Affairs Remarks & Releases...Report to Congress on Identification of, and Immigration Restrictions on, Senior Officials of the Government of Iran and Their Family Members hide Report to Congress on Identification of, and Immigration Restrictions on, Senior Officials of the Government of Iran and Their Family Members Report Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs March 18, 2022 Section 221 of the Iran Threat Reduction and Syria Human Rights Act of 2012, Public Law 112-158 (TRA), enacted August 10, 2012, codified at 22 U.S.C. 8727, requires the President publish a list of individuals the President has determined are senior 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 following individuals in the table below were specifically identified as meeting the criteria for immigration restrictions under TRA section 221, with titles current at the time of the designation: 1. Abbas Gholamshahi IRGC Navy (IRGCN) 1st Naval District Commander 2. Abdolghassem Salavati Judge and Head of Tehran Revolutionary Court Branch 15, for serious human rights abuses 3. Abdolhamid Mohtasham founding member and key leader of Ansar-e Hizballah 4. Abdollah Araghi Deputy Commander of IRGC Ground Forces 5. Abdollah Mehrabi IRGC Brigadier General 6. Abdolnaser Hemmati Iran Central Bank Governor, for assisting, sponsoring, or providing financial support for IRGC Qods Force 7. Abdolreza Rahmani Fazli Minister of Interior and Chair of National Domestic Security Council, for serious human rights abuses 8. Ahmad-Reza Radan former Deputy Chief of Iran’s National Police 9. Ali Akbar Ahmadian Head of IRGC Strategic Center 10. Ali Akbar Tabatabaie Senior IRGC Qods Force Official 11. Ali Fadavi Commander of IRGC Navy 12. Ali Fallahian former head of Iran’s intelligence service (MOIS), for serious human rights abuses 13. Ali Fazli Deputy Commander of the Basij 14. Ali Husseini Khamenei Supreme Leader, for support of the IRGC, a foreign terrorist organization 15. Ali Reza Tangsiri IRGC Naval Commander 16. Amirali Hajizadeh commander of the IRGC Aerospace Force 17. Amjad Sazgar Managing Director of Atomic Energy Organization of Iran 18. Commander Ali Ozma’I IRGCN 5th Naval District 19. Ebrahim Raisi head of Iran’s judiciary, for serious human rights abuses 20. Esmail Ghani Senior IRGC Qods Force Official 21. Gholam Ali Rashid IRGC commander 22. Hamid Ostad founder of Mashad branch of Ansar-e Hizballah 23. Hasan Irlu Senior IRGC Qods Force Official and Iranian envoy to the Houthis 24. Hasan Shahvarpour Brigadier General and Commander of the IRGC Vali Asr forces of Khuzestan Province, for serious human rights abuses 25. Hassan Firouzabadi former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff 26. Hassan Rouhani President of Iran, for support of the IRGC, a foreign terrorist organization 27. Heidar Abbaszadeh Brigadier General of the IRGC and Commander of Provincial Law Enforcement Forces in Khuzestan Province, for serious human rights abuses 28. Hojatollah Khodaei Souri former director of Evin Prison, for serious human rights abuses 29. Hossein Allahkaram cofounder and leader of Ansar-e Hizballah 30. Hossein Dehghan IRGC Brigadier General 31. Hossein Salami IRGC Deputy Commander 32. Hossein Taeb IRGC Commander for Intelligence 33. Ismail Ahmadi Moghadam former Commander of Law Enforcement Forces 34. Mahmud Bagheri Kazemabad Commander of IRGC Aerospace Forces Al-Ghadir Missile Command 35. Majid Agha’i Manager of Atomic Energy Organization of Iran subsidiary 36. Mansur Ravankar IRGCN 4th Naval District Commander 37. Mehran Babri Director of Shahid Meisami Group 38. Mohammad Agha Ja’fari Senior official of IRGC Aerospace Forces Al-Ghadir Missile Command 39. Mohammad Ali Jafari-Najafabadi IRGC Commander 40. Mohammad Bagheri chief of Armed Forces General Staff, for support of the IRGC, a foreign terrorist organization 41. Mohammad Hejazi Senior IRGC Qods Force Official 42. Mohammad Javad Azari Jahromi Minister of Information and Communications, Technology for serious human rights abuses 43. Mohammad Javad Zarif Foreign Minister, for support of the IRGC, a foreign terrorist organization 44. Mohammad Moghisseh Judge and Head of Tehran Revolutionary Court Branch 28, for serious human rights abuses 45. Mohammad Pakpour commander of IRGC Ground Forces 46. Mohammad Reza Naqdi Commander of the Basij 47. Mohammad Reza Zahedi IRGC Ground Forces Commander 48. Mohammad Soltani Judge of Mashhad Revolutionary Court, for serious human rights abuses 49. Mojtaba Khamenei son of Supreme Leader 50. Qasem Soleimani IRGC Commander for Intelligence 51. Qolam-Hossein Mohseni-Ejei former Prosecutor-General of Iran 52. Ramezan Zirahi IRGCN 2nd Naval District Commander 53. Reza Papi Colonel in IRGC and Police Chief of Mahshahr in Khuzestan Province, for serious human rights abuses 54. Rostam Qasemi Senior IRGC Qods Force Official 55. Sadegh Larijani Head of the Judiciary 56. Saeed Aghajani IRGC Brigadier General 57. Seyed Mahmoud Sadati Judge of Shiraz Revolutionary Court Branch 1, for serious human rights abuses 58. Seyyed Mahmoud Alavi Minister of Intelligence, for serious human rights abuses 59. 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 60. Valiollah Seif Iran Central Bank Governor, foe assisting, sponsoring, or providing financial support for IRGC Qods Force 61. Yadollah Badin IRGCN 3rd Naval District Commander Tags Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs Immigration Iran