- Programme
- Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad
- Designated
- Not published by this authority
- Legal basis
- Ordinance of 10 April 2024 on measures against persons and organisations supporting Hamas or the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (SR 946.231.09), art. 2 para. 1 (Financial sanctions) and art. 3 para. 1 (Travel ban), annex
- Stated grounds
- Ali Morshed Shirazi is a senior Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps – Quds Force (IRGC-QF) official serving as Bureau Chief of the Palestine Branch, operating out of Lebanon. The IRGC-QF provides financial support, as well as training, intelligence, and other forms of assistance to Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ). Within his organisation, Shirazi is in charge of the monitoring and control unit responsible for executing military operations. Together with IRGC-QF Palestine Branch leader Sa’id Izadi, he also operates the Cyber Unit, which aides Hamas’ operations by extracting information from the phones of Israeli soldiers. Moreover, he has requested the assistance of the technical unit of IRGC-QF (Unit 340) to support PIJ. Ali Morshed Shirazi therefore participates in the enabling of violent actions by Hamas and PIJ.
- Source
- Switzerland SECO Sanctions List
- Last confirmed
- 19 Oct 2026