Bank Mellat

• SanctionsRecords foundSanctioned by 6 authorities: Switzerland SECO, EU, Taiwan International Trade Administration, OFAC, UK OFSI, France gels des avoirs. 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: MEHR EQTESAD BANK.
• 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

• France gels des avoirsActive

  (UE) 2025/1980 du 29/09/2025 (UE Iran prolifération - R (UE) 267/2012)

  Designation date not published by this authority · France Registre national des gels

• Switzerland SECOActive

  Iran

  Designated 12 Dec 2025 · Switzerland SECO Sanctions List

• UK OFSIActive

  Iran (Nuclear)

  Designated 29 Sept 2025 · UK Sanctions List (FCDO)

• EUActive

  IRN

  Designated 29 Sept 2025 · EU Consolidated Sanctions List

• OFACActive

  IRAN

  Designation date not published by this authority · OFAC SDN

No people recorded against this company. Officer and ownership data comes from national business registers, and the registers this system reads cover a different set of countries from the sanctions lists — so a sanctioned company frequently has none.

Legal name

Bank Mellat

Also known as

Bank Mellat · BANK MELLAT · Mellat International Bank · Nation's Bank

Jurisdiction

IR

Address

Head Office Bldg, 276 Taleghani Ave Tehran Iran, Tehran, 15817

Website

www.bankmellat.ir ↗

First recorded here

21 Jul 2026

1. Sanction listed: France gels des avoirs — (UE) 2025/1980 du 29/09/2025 (UE Iran prolifération - R (UE) 267/2012)

   28 Sept 2026 · France Registre national des gels

2. Parent company recorded: MEHR EQTESAD BANK

   11 Sept 2026 · OFAC SDN

3. Subsidiary recorded: FIRST EAST EXPORT BANK, P.L.C.

   11 Sept 2026 · OFAC SDN

4. Subsidiary recorded: MELLAT BANK CLOSED JOINT-STOCK COMPANY

   10 Sept 2026 · OFAC SDN

5. Subsidiary recorded: PERSIA INTERNATIONAL BANK PLC

   10 Sept 2026 · OFAC SDN

6. Sanction listed: OFAC — IRAN

   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.

No people recorded against this company. Officer data comes from national business registers, and a company outside those jurisdictions will have none here even when its officers are publicly known elsewhere.

Shown as text on purpose, and not a link. These addresses come from sanctions and warning lists, where the site is usually the operation being named — the authority published it as evidence, not as a destination.

8 companies, 7 recorded links, up to two steps from this record. Open the full graph ›

No other company on file shares Head Office Bldg, 276 Taleghani Ave Tehran Iran, Tehran.

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

  bank mellat

  Legal name

  Evidence

  8463

  Read 28 Sept 2026 · asserted by 7 records

  Source

  France Registre national des gels and 6 other sources

  Primary source ↗

• Fact

  IR

  Jurisdiction

  Evidence

  8463

  Read 28 Sept 2026 · asserted by 5 records

  Source

  France Registre national des gels and 4 other sources

  Primary source ↗

• Fact

  France gels des avoirs — (UE) 2025/1980 du 29/09/2025 (UE Iran prolifération - R (UE) 267/2012)

  Designation

  Evidence

  8463

  Read 28 Sept 2026

  Source

  France Registre national des gels

  Primary source ↗

• Fact

  UK OFSI — Iran (Nuclear)

  Designation

  Evidence

  11166

  Read 13 Sept 2026 · asserted by 2 records

  Source

  UK Sanctions List (FCDO) and 1 other source

  Primary source ↗

• Fact

  OFAC — IRAN

  Designation

  Evidence

  25019

  Read 10 Sept 2026

  Source

  OFAC SDN

  Primary source ↗

• Fact

  OFAC — SDGT

  Designation

  Evidence

  25019

  Read 10 Sept 2026

  Source

  OFAC SDN

  Primary source ↗

• Fact

  OFAC — IFSR

  Designation

  Evidence

  25019

  Read 10 Sept 2026

  Source

  OFAC SDN

  Primary source ↗

• Fact

  EU — IRN

  Designation

  Evidence

  179072

  Read 10 Sept 2026

  Source

  EU Consolidated Sanctions List

  Primary source ↗

• Fact

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

  Designation

  Evidence

  cc4c9a2578f0e85f7690ca24

  Read 10 Sept 2026

  Source

  Taiwan SHTC export entity list

  Primary source ↗

• Fact

  Switzerland SECO — Iran

  Designation

  Evidence

  100245

  Read 17 Aug 2026 · asserted by 2 records

  Source

  Switzerland SECO Sanctions List

  Primary source ↗

• Fact

  www.bankmellat.ir

  Website

  Evidence

  11166

  Read 13 Sept 2026 · asserted by 3 records

  Source

  UK Sanctions List (FCDO) and 2 other sources

  Primary source ↗

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TRUE

A source states it. Rendered as a fact, with the source attached.

FALSE

A source explicitly denies it. Rare, and never inferred from silence.

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.

12 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.