- Programme
- Situation in Ukraine
- Designated
- Not published by this authority
- Legal basis
- Ordinance of 4 March 2022 on measures related to the situation in Ukraine (RS 946.231.176.72), Art. 15 para. 1 and 4 (Financial sanctions) and art. 29 para. 1 (Travel ban), annexe 8
- Stated grounds
- Brigadier General Ali Reza Balali is an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) officer and counsellor to the EU-listed chief of the IRGC Aerospace Force (IRGC AF), Amir Ali Hajizadeh. Balali has organised and promoted an event to display and train with military Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) in Kashan, Iran in Aug 2022, to which Russian forces were invited and in which they participated. In so doing, he supported Russian forces in using Iranian UAVs in the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine. Therefore, Brigadier General Ali Reza Balali is supporting actions which undermine or threaten the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine.
- Source
- Switzerland SECO Sanctions List
- Last confirmed
- 19 Oct 2026