FARS NEWS AGENCY

• SanctionsRecords foundSanctioned by 3 authorities: Taiwan International Trade Administration, Canada, OFAC. 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 .
• 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

• CanadaActive

  Iran

  Designated 19 Oct 2022 · Canada Consolidated Autonomous Sanctions List

• OFACActive

  IFSR

  Designation date not published by this authority · OFAC SDN

• OFACActive

  IRGC

  Designation date not published by this authority · OFAC SDN

• OFACActive

  IRAN-HR

  Designation date not published by this authority · OFAC SDN

Legal name

FARS NEWS AGENCY

Also known as

FARS NEWS AGENCY · FARS NEWS AGENCY CULTURAL INSTITUTE · Fars News Agency · خبرگزاری فارس

Jurisdiction

IR

Registration number

10100426798

Address

Number 1, Shahrood Alley, Ferdowsi Square Tehran 115999346717 Iran

Website

www.farsnews.ir ↗

First recorded here

17 Aug 2026

1. Sanction listed: OFAC — IFSR

   28 Sept 2026 · OFAC SDN

2. Sanction listed: OFAC — IRGC

   28 Sept 2026 · OFAC SDN

3. Sanction listed: OFAC — IRAN-HR

   28 Sept 2026 · OFAC SDN

4. Identifier recorded: REG_NUMBER 10581

   28 Sept 2026 · OFAC SDN

5. Sanction listed: Canada — Iran

   10 Sept 2026 · Canada Consolidated Autonomous Sanctions List

6. Alias recorded: خبرگزاری فارس

   10 Sept 2026 · Canada Consolidated Autonomous Sanctions 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.

None recorded with a stated ownership stake or control method.

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.

37 companies, 36 recorded links, up to two steps from this record. Open the full graph ›

No other company on file shares Number 1, Shahrood Alley, Ferdowsi Square Tehran 115999346717 Iran.

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

  reg_number:10581

  Registered identifier

  Evidence

  45049

  Read 28 Sept 2026

  Source

  OFAC SDN

  Primary source ↗

• Fact

  reg_number:10100426798

  Registered identifier

  Evidence

  b291882a7c3e11e14d4d6940

  Read 17 Aug 2026

  Source

  Taiwan SHTC export entity list

  Primary source ↗

• Fact

  fars news agency

  Legal name

  Evidence

  45049

  Read 28 Sept 2026 · asserted by 3 records

  Source

  OFAC SDN and 2 other sources

  Primary source ↗

• Fact

  IR

  Jurisdiction

  Evidence

  45049

  Read 28 Sept 2026 · asserted by 2 records

  Source

  OFAC SDN and 1 other source

  Primary source ↗

• Fact

  OFAC — IFSR

  Designation

  Evidence

  45049

  Read 28 Sept 2026

  Source

  OFAC SDN

  Primary source ↗

• Fact

  OFAC — IRGC

  Designation

  Evidence

  45049

  Read 28 Sept 2026

  Source

  OFAC SDN

  Primary source ↗

• Fact

  OFAC — IRAN-HR

  Designation

  Evidence

  45049

  Read 28 Sept 2026

  Source

  OFAC SDN

  Primary source ↗

• Fact

  Canada — Iran

  Designation

  Evidence

  iran-1, Part 1-165-fars-news-agency

  Read 10 Sept 2026 · in force from 19 Oct 2022

  Source

  Canada Consolidated Autonomous Sanctions List

  Primary source ↗

• Fact

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

  Designation

  Evidence

  b291882a7c3e11e14d4d6940

  Read 17 Aug 2026

  Source

  Taiwan SHTC export entity list

  Primary source ↗

• Fact

  www.farsnews.ir

  Website

  Evidence

  45049

  Read 28 Sept 2026

  Source

  OFAC SDN

  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.

Registration number

10100426798IRvia Taiwan SHTC export entity list

Registration number

10581IRvia OFAC SDN