Seyyed Morteza Bakhtiari

PersonBorn 1952Last read from source 19 Oct 2026

(1) Head of Khorasan Justice Dept (2004-2005) (2) Director of State Prisons (1999-2004) (3) Former Minister of Justice from 2009 to 2013 (4) Former Official of the Special Clerical Tribunal (5) Former: Deputy Prosecutor General (2014-2016) (6) Governor of Isfahan (2005-2009) (7) Head of the Imam Khomeini Relief Foundation (since July 2019) (8) Former Deputy custodian of Imam Reza shrine (9) Minister of Justice (2009-2013)

Sanctioned · UK OFSI
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Sanctions1 active

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    Iran

    Designation date not published by this authority · UK Sanctions List (FCDO)

Companies & roles

No company role is recorded for this person. Roles come from national business registers, and a sanctioned individual will usually have none here — the registers this system reads cover a different set of countries from the sanctions lists.

On the record

Name
Seyyed Morteza Bakhtiari
Date of birth
1952
Place of birth
Mashhad, Iran
Position
(1) Head of Khorasan Justice Dept (2004-2005) (2) Director of State Prisons (1999-2004) (3) Former Minister of Justice from 2009 to 2013 (4) Former Official of the Special Clerical Tribunal (5) Former: Deputy Prosecutor General (2014-2016) (6) Governor of Isfahan (2005-2009) (7) Head of the Imam Khomeini Relief Foundation (since July 2019) (8) Former Deputy custodian of Imam Reza shrine (9) Minister of Justice (2009-2013)
First recorded here
28 Aug 2026

Exposure

Medium risk1 of 5 components assessed — no composite shown, because how much was read is itself unknown here
Sanctions and debarments60

Sanctioned by 1 authority: UK OFSI. Confirmed present in a source snapshot within the last 90 days.

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Company associations

Not scored. No company role is recorded for this person, which is an absence of records rather than a finding.

Jurisdiction

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Evidence coverage

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Adverse media

Not scored. Media coverage is not linked to individuals in this system at all, only to companies, and even there it covers a small fraction of the records.

Band drawn from the components that could be measured, methodology v5. The unscored ones above are gaps in what was read, not findings of nothing. Not a compliance determination — check the underlying listings before acting on anything here.

Recent activity

  1. 19 Oct 2026Last read from source