Council Implementing Decision (CFSP) 2025/774 of 14 April 2025 implementing Decision 2011/235/CFSP concerning restrictive measures directed against certain persons and entities in view of the situation in Iran

Article 1
The Annex to Decision 2011/235/CFSP is amended in accordance with the Annex to this Decision.
Article 2
This Decision shall enter into force on the date of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union .
ANNEX
ANNEX
The following persons and entities are added to the list of persons and entities set out in the Annex to Decision 2011/235/CFSP:
Persons
Name
Identifying information
Reasons
Date of listing
‘238.
HOWZAN Abbasali
Function: Judge of branch 36 of the Court of Appeal of Tehran Province
Nationality: Iranian
Gender: male
Abbasali Howzan is a judge of branch 36 of the Court of Appeal of Tehran Province.
In this capacity, he upheld on appeal the convictions of numerous political opponents (including those connected to the “Women, Life, Freedom” protests), activists, women for not complying with Iranian hijab laws and people from religious minorities, in particular the Baha’i community. In several of those cases, convictions were based on forced confessions obtained under torture and were a result of procedures conducted in violation of fair trial guarantees.
Therefore, Abbasali Howzan is responsible for serious human rights violations in Iran.
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239.
FARZADI Hedayatollah
Function: Head of Evin Prison
POB: Basht, Iran
Nationality: Iranian
Gender: male
Hedayatollah Farzadi is the Head of EU-listed Evin Prison.
He is directly responsible for severe violations of political prisoners’ human rights, in particular for restricting their communication and visitation rights and for arbitrarily ordering solitary confinement. He is also responsible for the deterioration of detention conditions of political prisoners.
Furthermore, EU-listed Evin Prison is a detention centre where political prisoners and hostages have been held, and where severe human rights abuses, including torture, denied communication rights, and obstructed access to medical care, have repeatedly taken place over the past years.
As a result, through his involvement in the administration of EU-listed Evin Prison, Hedayatollah Farzadi is himself responsible for serious human rights violations in Iran and is associated with an EU-listed entity responsible for serious human rights violations in Iran.
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240.
NEMATI Mehdi
Function: Head of the Fars Prisons Protection and Intelligence Department
Nationality: Iranian
Gender: male
Mehdi Nemati has been the Head of the Fars Prisons Protection and Intelligence Department since 2018.
The Fars Prisons Protection and Intelligence Department is responsible for the administration of EU-listed Shiraz Central Prison, where human rights are systemically violated and where numerous opponents of the Islamic Republic of Iran have been executed. Several hostages from European countries have been unlawfully detained in this prison, where their access to a fair trial has been denied and where they have experienced severe violations of their most basic rights. Furthermore, this prison is participating in the repression of ethnic and religious minorities in southern Iran (including Arabs, Kurds, Baluchs, semi-nomadic tribes and Baha’is) through almost systematic executions.
The Shiraz Central Prison is therefore responsible for serious human rights violations in Iran.
Through his role in the administration of the EU-listed Shiraz Central Prison, which is involved in the violations of detainees’ human rights, Mehdi Nemati is associated with an entity responsible for serious human rights violations in Iran.
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241.
ZAREH Kamran
Function: Judge at the Shiraz Court of Appeal
Nationality: Iranian
Gender: male
Kamran Zareh is Judge at the Shiraz Court of Appeal.
In his role, he has systematically handed down severe sentences to peaceful dissidents, thus implementing the Islamic Republic of Iran’s campaign of repression against political opponents.
Furthermore, the Shiraz Court of Appeal has been implicated in numerous human rights violations, particularly concerning the prosecution of political dissidents and individuals from minority communities (in particular the Baha’i community).
Through his involvement within this court, Kamran Zareh is therefore responsible for and associated with an entity responsible for serious human rights violations in Iran.
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242.
SADATI Sayyed Mahmood
Function: Judge at Shiraz Revolutionary Court
Nationality: Iranian
Gender: male
Sayyed Sadati is a Judge at EU-listed Shiraz Revolutionary Court.
In his role, he is responsible for serious human rights violations, in particular forced confessions, violations of fair trial guarantees and execution of death sentences, against activists, political dissidents and individuals from minority communities (in particular the Baha’i community). Furthermore, he has systematically handed down severe sentences to peaceful dissidents, thus implementing the Islamic Republic of Iran’s campaign of repression against political opponents.
Additionally, the EU-listed Shiraz Revolutionary Court is implicated in numerous human rights violations.
Therefore, through his involvement within the Shiraz Revolutionary Court, Sayyed Sadati is responsible for and associated with an entity responsible for serious human rights violations in Iran.
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243.
SALEHI Ali
Function: Public Prosecutor of Tehran
Nationality: Iranian
Gender: male
Ali Salehi is the Public Prosecutor of Tehran.
In his role, he participated in the prosecution of several women for refusing to comply with the mandatory hijab law, students and protesters. He also participated in the issuance of death sentences to prisoners and the implementation of those sentences as well as authorising the use of torture practices against prisoners.
Therefore, Ali Salehi is responsible for serious human rights violations in Iran.
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244.
KHOSRAVANI Mohammad
Function: Special Prosecutor of the Shiraz Revolutionary Court
DOB: 16.9.1980
POB: Shiraz, Iran
Nationality: Iranian
Gender: male
National ID No: 2296246941 (Iran)
Birth certificate No: 1565
Birth certificate serial No: 225889221
Mohammad Khosravani is the Special Prosecutor of the Shiraz Revolutionary Court.
In this capacity, he has been responsible for and implicated in numerous human rights violations. These cases concern political dissidents, members of minority groups and several other individuals. He has directly coerced and pressured detainees, violated defendants’ rights and overseen arbitrary arrests. Partly as a consequence of his actions, the Shiraz Revolutionary Court has gained a notoriety for unjust sentences and human rights violations.
Mohammad Khosravani is therefore responsible for serious human rights violations in Iran.
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Entities
Name
Identifying information
Reasons
Date of listing
‘44.
Shiraz Central Prison
(a.k.a. Adel Abad Prison)
Type of entity: Prison
Place of registration: Shiraz, Fars province, Iran
Shiraz Central Prison, Adel Abad, located in Shiraz, Fars province, Iran, is a prison in which detainees’ human rights are systemically violated and where numerous opponents of the Islamic Republic of Iran have been executed, including based on collective punishment.
Several hostages from European countries have been unlawfully detained in this prison, where their access to a fair trial has been denied and where they have experienced severe violations of their most basic rights.
Furthermore, this prison is participating in the repression of ethnic and religious minorities in southern Iran (including Arabs, Kurds, Baluchs, semi-nomadic tribes and Baha’is) through almost systematic executions.
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1st branch of the Revolutionary Court of Shiraz
Type of entity: Prison
Place of registration: Shiraz, Fars province, Iran
The 1st branch of the Revolutionary Court of Shiraz, located in Fars province, Iran, has been implicated in numerous human rights violations, in particular concerning the unjust trials and executions of political dissidents and persecution of individuals from minority communities (in particular the Baha’i community).
These actions underscore the court’s role in perpetuating systemic human rights violations, utilising the judiciary as a tool for political repression and suppression of political dissent and minority communities in Iran.
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Council Implementing Decision (CFSP) 2025/774 of 14 April 2025 implementing Decision 2011/235/CFSP concerning restrictive measures directed against certain persons and entities in view of the situation in Iran

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