Organisation of Defensive Innovation and Research (SPND)

• SanctionsRecords foundSanctioned by 1 authority: 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: Ministry of Defence Armed Forces Logistics (MODAFL).
• 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.

• UK OFSIActive

  Iran (Nuclear)

  Designated 31 Dec 2020 · UK Sanctions List (FCDO)

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

Organisation of Defensive Innovation and Research (SPND)

Also known as

Organisation of Defensive Innovation and Research (SPND) · New Defense Research Organization · Sazman e Pazhouheshhaye Novin e Defa'i · SPND

Jurisdiction

IR

First recorded here

28 Aug 2026

1. Parent company recorded: Ministry of Defence Armed Forces Logistics (MODAFL)

   10 Sept 2026 · UK OFSI Consolidated List

2. Parent company recorded: Ministry of Defence Armed Forces Logistics (MODAFL)

   10 Sept 2026 · UK OFSI Consolidated List

3. Subsidiary recorded: Research Centre for Explosion and Impact

   10 Sept 2026 · UK OFSI Consolidated List

4. Sanction listed: UK OFSI — Iran (Nuclear)

   28 Aug 2026 · UK OFSI Consolidated List

5. Alias recorded: SPND

   28 Aug 2026 · UK OFSI Consolidated List

6. Alias recorded: Sazman e Pazhouheshhaye Novin e Defa'i

   28 Aug 2026 · UK OFSI Consolidated List

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.

11 companies, 10 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

  organisation of defensive innovation and research (spnd)

  Legal name

  Evidence

  12821

  Read 13 Sept 2026 · asserted by 2 records

  Source

  UK Sanctions List (FCDO) and 1 other source

  Primary source ↗

• Fact

  IR

  Jurisdiction

  Evidence

  12821

  Read 13 Sept 2026 · asserted by 2 records

  Source

  UK Sanctions List (FCDO) and 1 other source

  Primary source ↗

• Fact

  UK OFSI — Iran (Nuclear)

  Designation

  Evidence

  12821

  Read 13 Sept 2026 · asserted by 2 records

  Source

  UK Sanctions List (FCDO) and 1 other source

  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.

5 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.