OFSI sanctions listing
Abdolsamad KHORAMABADI
Abdolsamad KHORAMABADI is an individual designated on the HM Treasury — Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation (OFSI) (OFSI) sanctions list under the Iran programme, listed on 12/03/2013. (1) Head of 'Commission to Determine the Instances of Criminal Content'. (2) Deputy Director for Judicial Oversight since 13 October 2013. This page summarises the public designation — known aliases, identifying particulars, the stated reason for listing and linked parties — alongside an independent, transparent risk indicator.
Reason for listing
(UK Sanctions List Ref):IRN0006. (UK Statement of Reasons):Abdolsamad Khoramabadi, as Head of the ‘Commission to Determine the Instances of Criminal Content’, is or has been involved in a governmental organization in charge of online censorship and cyber crime. Under his leadership the Commission defined ‘cybercrime’ by a number of vague categories that criminalize creation and publication of content deemed inappropriate by the regime. He is responsible for repression and the blocking of numerous opposition sites, electronic newspapers, blogs, sites of human rights NGOs and of Google and Gmail since September 2012. He and the Commission actively contributed to the death in detention of the blogger Sattar Beheshti in November 2012. Thus the Commission is directly responsible for systemic violations of human rights, in particular by banning and filtering websites to the general public, and occasionally disabling Internet access altogether. (Gender):Male
Statement of reasons as published by UK OFSI. This is the issuing authority's wording, reproduced for reference.
Designation record
| List / authority | UK OFSI (OFSI) — Iran |
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| Entity type | Person |
| Programmes / regime | Iran |
| Date listed | 12/03/2013 |
| Source record ID | ofsi:12865 |
| Last updated (our copy) | 2026-06-04 |
Identity & particulars
| Position / role | (1) Head of 'Commission to Determine the Instances of Criminal Content'. (2) Deputy Director for Judicial Oversight since 13 October 2013 |
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Source & provenance
| Issuing authority | HM Treasury — Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation (OFSI) |
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| Source identifier | ofsi:12865 |
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