UK

Applied Satellite Technology (AST)

Industry
Technology
Country
UK
Sources

According to its website, Iranian company, Fatehin Sanat supplies, plans and installs products of AST.

Response

AST has never had contact let alone business transactions with this organisation. It is a complete mystery. To emphasise the clarity of this response to you we have no business ties at all with this organisation. Furthermore, to the best of my knowledge AST has no business in Iran. (November 19, 2018)

The Business Year

Industry
News Agency
Country
UK
Sources

The Business Year has agreed to serve as a media partner at the Iran Business Symposium (the “Symposium”) in Amsterdam on February 21-23, 2017. According to its official website, the Symposium is intended to provide companies, among a host of other objectives, with “a global platform to discover the latest developments and opportunities within the economy of Iran … [to develop] transportation and logistics…[and] energy and infrastructure… [and to] [g]et insights on Iran’s Economy, Legal Framework and Industrial Sectors.” (Symposium Website, “Home”).

Aberdeen Asset Management

Industry
Financial Services
Country
UK
Sources

According to its Performance Data & Analytics Report on February 28, 2022, the company "contacted [Samsung Electronics] to ask about its involvement in Iran. [Samsung Electronics] confirmed that its office in Tehran is small and, rather than being a base to conduct business in the country, it is there to support regional operations."

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Aberdeen Asset Management attended the FT Iran Summit 2016 in London on March 9, 2016. The Summit was purportedly designed to "educate" international companies about the benefits of doing business in Iran and to encourage them to enter or re-enter the Iranian market. (Financial Times, “FT Iran Summit 2016”).

International Research Networks

Industry
Conference Organizer
Country
UK
Sources

International Research Networks Ltd. organized the Iran Business Symposium in Amsterdam on February 21-23, 2016. According to its official website, the Symposium provided companies, among a host of other objectives,  latest developments and opportunities within the economy of Iran [to develop] transportation
and logistics. (Symposium "Home").

Islamic Human Rights Commission (IHRC)

Industry
Private Consortium
Country
UK
Sources

"A human rights organisation has received more than £1 million in charity cash despite being run by self-declared Islamist revolutionaries closely aligned to Iran who say that the West is “the enemy” and Britain a “Stasi state”. According to an investigation by The Times newspaper the Islamic Human Rights Commission (IHRC), which is supported by Jeremy Corbyn, speak of “apartheid London”, label anti-terrorism laws a “war on Muslims” and condemn English as a “colonial language that will always subjugate you”. The London-based group, given £1.2 million since 2013 by a charity that received £250,000 from the taxpayer via Gift Aid, claims to fight for the oppressed “whosoever they are and whomsoever oppresses them”." (The Telegraph, "£1m charity cash for group linked to Iran," 10/10/2019).

Telegram

Industry
Telecommunications
Country
UK
Sources

"A statement issued by the center on Thursday October 10 says rumors on social media about the lifting of the ban on Telegram are not true. Telegram, which had close to 40 million users in Iran was banned in early 2018 after mass anti-government protests nationwide. Messaging apps are used to inform people about protests. Iran has also blocked Facebook and thousands of websites, some for political reasons.During the past week, a post attributed to the Chief of High Council of Cyberspace Abolhassan Firouzabadi said that ban was to be lifted. Firouzabadi has denied posting the tweet that promised ending the ban on Telegram. The rumors on lifting the ban on Telegram started when the Judge who had ruled last year that the social networking service should be banned, was arrested last week on charges of financial corruption. Regardless of the ban, Telegram is still the most popular social networking platform retaining most of its users according to official figures. Iranians routinely use proxies and VPNs to get access to free internet." (Radio Farda, "Ban on Popular Telegram App Not to be Lifted In Iran," 10/10/2019).

Westech

Industry
Electronics
Country
UK
Sources

On the official website of Zist Tajhiz Pooyesh Company, Westech is mentioned as their official business partner. Zist Tajhiz Pooyesh Company is added on February 3, 2017 to the Specially Designated Nationals (SDN) list maintained by the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) for supplying goods to Mabrooka Trading, which procures items for Iran-based Navid Composite, a subsidiary of U.N.-sanctioned Sanam Industries Group;

Signal Group

Industry
Energy
Country
UK
Response

On the official website of Zist Tajhiz Pooyesh Company, Signal Group is mentioned as their official business partner. Zist Tajhiz Pooyesh Company is added on February 3, 2017 to the Specially Designated Nationals (SDN) list maintained by the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) for supplying goods to Mabrooka Trading, which procures items for Iran-based Navid Composite, a subsidiary of U.N.-sanctioned Sanam Industries Group;