BASIJ RESISTANCE FORCE

• SanctionsRecords foundSanctioned by 5 authorities: Canada, OFAC, Australia DFAT, Taiwan International Trade Administration, UK OFSI. Confirmed present in a source snapshot within the last 90 days.
• Debarment & exclusion— Checked, nothing found16 sources read, none holding a record for this company.
• Ownership & controlRecords foundControlled by a designated company: Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps , ISLAMIC REVOLUTIONARY GUARD CORPS (IRGC)-QODS FORCE.
• People— Not assessedNothing has been read for this company on this dimension.
• Identity & registration— Not assessedNothing has been read for this company on this dimension.
• JurisdictionRecords foundIran is named on a jurisdiction designation list — European Commission, EU list of high-risk third countries (AMLD Art. 9), section II: “High-risk third countries which have provided a high-level political commitment to address the identified deficiencies, and have decided to seek technical assistance in the implementation of the FATF Action Plan, which are identified by FATF Public Statement.” The designation is of the jurisdiction, not of this record.
• Court records— Not assessedNothing has been read for this company on this dimension.

• Taiwan International Trade AdministrationActive

  Strategic high-tech commodities entity list

  Designation date not published by this authority · Taiwan SHTC export entity list

• Australia DFATActive

  Autonomous (Thematic - Human Rights)

  Designated 10 Dec 2022 · Australia DFAT Consolidated List

• CanadaActive

  Iran

  Designated 3 Oct 2022 · Canada Consolidated Autonomous Sanctions List

• UK OFSIActive

  Iran

  Designated 23 Jan 2023 · UK Sanctions List (FCDO)

• OFACActive

  FTO

  Designation date not published by this authority · OFAC SDN

• OFACActive

  IFSR

  Designation date not published by this authority · OFAC SDN

Legal name

BASIJ RESISTANCE FORCE

Also known as

BASIJ RESISTANCE FORCE · SAZMAN-E MOGHAVEMAT-E BASIJ · NATIONAL RESISTANCE MOBILIZATION · BASIJ-E MELLI +39

Jurisdiction

IR

First recorded here

17 Aug 2026

1. Alias recorded: سازمان بسیج مستضعفین

   13 Sept 2026 · UK Sanctions List (FCDO)

2. Subsidiary recorded: MEHR EQTESAD BANK

   11 Sept 2026 · OFAC SDN

3. Subsidiary recorded: BONYAD TAAVON BASIJ

   11 Sept 2026 · OFAC SDN

4. Parent company recorded: ISLAMIC REVOLUTIONARY GUARD CORPS (IRGC)-QODS FORCE

   11 Sept 2026 · OFAC SDN

5. Parent company recorded: Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps

   10 Sept 2026 · OFAC SDN

6. Sanction listed: OFAC — FTO

   10 Sept 2026 · OFAC SDN

No ownership test is on file for this company. The test reads who holds a company's shares from its shareholder register, and it is run each day for companies with a number in Estonia's, Latvia's or Poland's register. For a company anywhere else, no register read here states its shareholders, so the test cannot be run.

None recorded with a stated ownership stake or control method.

102 companies, 104 recorded links, up to two steps from this record. Open the full graph ›

No address has been read for this company, so this was never checked — which is not the same as finding nothing.

Each reading is kept with the methodology version that produced it. A later reading is not a correction of an earlier one — it is a different question asked of more sources.

• Fact

  basij resistance force

  Legal name

  Evidence

  15707

  Read 13 Sept 2026 · asserted by 6 records

  Source

  UK Sanctions List (FCDO) and 5 other sources

  Primary source ↗

• Fact

  IR

  Jurisdiction

  Evidence

  12727

  Read 10 Sept 2026

  Source

  OFAC SDN

  Primary source ↗

• Fact

  UK OFSI — Iran

  Designation

  Evidence

  15707

  Read 13 Sept 2026 · asserted by 2 records

  Source

  UK Sanctions List (FCDO) and 1 other source

  Primary source ↗

• Fact

  OFAC — FTO

  Designation

  Evidence

  12727

  Read 10 Sept 2026

  Source

  OFAC SDN

  Primary source ↗

• Fact

  OFAC — IFSR

  Designation

  Evidence

  12727

  Read 10 Sept 2026

  Source

  OFAC SDN

  Primary source ↗

• Fact

  OFAC — SDGT

  Designation

  Evidence

  12727

  Read 10 Sept 2026

  Source

  OFAC SDN

  Primary source ↗

• Fact

  OFAC — IRGC

  Designation

  Evidence

  12727

  Read 10 Sept 2026

  Source

  OFAC SDN

  Primary source ↗

• Fact

  OFAC — IRAN-HR

  Designation

  Evidence

  12727

  Read 10 Sept 2026

  Source

  OFAC SDN

  Primary source ↗

• Fact

  Canada — Iran

  Designation

  Evidence

  iran-1, Part 1.1-3-basij-resistance-force

  Read 10 Sept 2026 · in force from 3 Oct 2022

  Source

  Canada Consolidated Autonomous Sanctions List

  Primary source ↗

• Fact

  Australia DFAT — Autonomous (Thematic - Human Rights)

  Designation

  Evidence

  7302

  Read 10 Sept 2026

  Source

  Australia DFAT Consolidated List

  Primary source ↗

• Fact

  Taiwan International Trade Administration — Strategic high-tech commodities entity list

  Designation

  Evidence

  0ec4ed5b13d4a05e11618236

  Read 17 Aug 2026

  Source

  Taiwan SHTC export entity list

  Primary source ↗

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FALSE

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UNKNOWN

Checked, nothing found. Rendered as an em dash, never as 0 or "no".

NOT_ASSESSED

Never checked — nothing was read here. Excluded from coverage, and not counted as clean.

54 records on this company — identifiers, aliases, officers, listings, figures — each carry the source that wrote them and are shown beside their own entries. The fields above are different: the entities table has no source column, so what is shown is every source whose stored payload contains the value verbatim. That is strong evidence, not proof of which write landed it, and where nothing contains the value the row says so instead of naming a plausible source.