OFAC Sanctions Employees of Iranian State-Owned Media Entity

The Office of Foreign Assets Control this week sanctioned six senior employees of the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting, an Iranian state-controlled media organization that has broadcast “hundreds of forced confessions” of detainees in Iran. The IRIB was designated in 2013 for acting as a “critical tool in the Iranian government’s mass suppression and censorship campaign against its own people,” OFAC said. The latest designations target IRIB employees Ali Rezvani, Ameneh Sadat Zabihpour, Peyman Jebelli, Mohsen Bormahani, Ahmad Noroozi and Yousef Pouranvari.