Minister Anand announces additional sanctions against Iranian individuals and entities

September 23, 2026

The Honourable Anita Anand, Minister of Foreign Affairs, today announced that Canada is imposing additional sanctions against five individuals and five entities under the Special Economic Measures (Iran) Regulations for their role in the Iranian regime’s brutal repression of its population.

These sanctions target senior Iranian security and government officials, as well as state-directed entities, involved in digital repression and other serious and systematic human rights violations. These individuals and entities have contributed to Iran’s efforts to suppress dissent and restrict fundamental freedoms of Iran’s population, including through digital surveillance, censorship, unlawful violence, arbitrary detention and intimidation.

The newly listed individuals and entities are the following:

Iranian Audiovisual Media Regulatory Authority (SATRA), entity controlled by the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting
Working Group for Determining Instances of Criminal Content (WGDICC), Iranian state censorship authority
Douran Group, Iranian software and technology company
Yaftar Pazhohan Pishtaz Rayanesh Limited Company, Iranian software and technology company
Seraj Cyberspace Organization, IRGC-established cyberspace organization
Davoud Moazami Goudarzi, Head of Greater Tehran’s Cyber Police (FATA)
Eskandar Momeni, senior commander of the IRGC and Minister of the Interior
Rasoul Jalili, member of the Supreme Council of Cyberspace (SCC)
Mohsen Fathizadeh, Head of the Protection and Intelligence Organization of the Law Enforcement Forces (LEF)
Ruhollah Momen Nasab, Head of the Headquarters for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice and a member of the Supreme Council of Cyberspace

With these amendments, 237 Iranian individuals and 265 Iranian entities are listed under the Special Economic Measures (Iran) Regulations, Special Economic Measures (Hamas Terrorist Attacks) Regulations, Special Economic Measures (Russia) Regulations, and Justice for Victims of Corrupt Foreign Officials Act.

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