DEFENCE INDUSTRIES ORGANISATION (DIO)

• SanctionsRecords foundSanctioned by 4 authorities: Taiwan International Trade Administration, UK OFSI, Australia DFAT, Türkiye MASAK. 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.

• Türkiye MASAKActive

  7262 Sayılı Kanun Kapsamında

  Designated 24 Feb 2021 · Türkiye MASAK asset freezes

• Taiwan International Trade AdministrationActive

  Strategic high-tech commodities entity list

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

• Australia DFATActive

  1737 (Iran)

  Designated 12 Dec 2025 · Australia DFAT Consolidated List

• UK OFSIActive

  Iran (Nuclear)

  Designated 18 Oct 2023 · 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

DEFENCE INDUSTRIES ORGANISATION (DIO)

Also known as

DEFENCE INDUSTRIES ORGANISATION (DIO) · سازمان صنایع دفاع جمهوری اسلامی ایران · DEFENSE INDUSTRIES ORGANIZATION (DIO) · DIO IR (DEFENSE INDUSTRIES OF IRAN)

Jurisdiction

IR

First recorded here

17 Aug 2026

1. Alias recorded: سازمان صنایع دفاع جمهوری اسلامی ایران

   13 Sept 2026 · UK Sanctions List (FCDO)

2. Subsidiary recorded: Samen Industries

   11 Sept 2026 · UK OFSI Consolidated List

3. Subsidiary recorded: SAD Export Import Company

   11 Sept 2026 · UK OFSI Consolidated List

4. Subsidiary recorded: AIG – Armament Industries Group

   11 Sept 2026 · UK OFSI Consolidated List

5. Subsidiary recorded: 7TH OF TIR

   11 Sept 2026 · UK OFSI Consolidated List

6. Subsidiary recorded: Chemical Industries Group

   11 Sept 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.

14 companies, 14 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

  defence industries organisation (dio)

  Legal name

  Evidence

  16109

  Read 13 Sept 2026 · asserted by 5 records

  Source

  UK Sanctions List (FCDO) and 4 other sources

  Primary source ↗

• Fact

  IR

  Jurisdiction

  Evidence

  16109

  Read 13 Sept 2026 · asserted by 3 records

  Source

  UK Sanctions List (FCDO) and 2 other sources

  Primary source ↗

• Fact

  UK OFSI — Iran (Nuclear)

  Designation

  Evidence

  16109

  Read 13 Sept 2026 · asserted by 2 records

  Source

  UK Sanctions List (FCDO) and 1 other source

  Primary source ↗

• Fact

  Australia DFAT — 1737 (Iran)

  Designation

  Evidence

  8507

  Read 10 Sept 2026

  Source

  Australia DFAT Consolidated List

  Primary source ↗

• Fact

  Türkiye MASAK — 7262 Sayılı Kanun Kapsamında

  Designation

  Evidence

  tr-masak-efa8b316dd94e55aaa39

  Read 10 Sept 2026 · in force from 24 Feb 2021

  Source

  Türkiye MASAK asset freezes

  Primary source ↗

• Fact

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

  Designation

  Evidence

  307bef72f9aa7afe2182ec51

  Read 17 Aug 2026

  Source

  Taiwan SHTC export entity list

  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.

8 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.