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Hossein Hamadani

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Hossein Hamadani is subject to sanctions. See the individual program listings below.

Type	Person				[sources]
Name	Hamedani Hossein · Hosejn Hamadani · Hossein Hamadani · Hossein Hamedani · Hüseyn Hemedani · 7 more...				[sources]
Other name	Hossein Hamadani · Hossein Hamedani · Хамадани, Хоссейн · حاج حسین همدانی · حسین همدانی · 1 more...				[sources]
Birth date	1950-12-15 · 1955-01-01				[sources]
Place of birth	Hamadan				[sources]
Death date	2015-10-07				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Nationality	Iran				[sources]
Country	Iran				[sources]
First name	Hossein				[sources]
Last name	Hamadani · Hamedani				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q4116833				[sources]
Religion	Shia Islam				[sources]
Created at	2016-05-18				[sources]
Modified on	2024-04-07				[sources]
Last changed	2024-04-14	Last checked	2024-05-05	First seen	2022-07-15

Descriptions

Head of the IRGC’s Rassoulollah Corps in charge of Greater Tehran since November 2009. The Rassoulollah Corps is in charge of security in greater Tehran, and played a key role in violent suppression of protesters in 2009. Responsible for the crackdown of protests through Ashura events (December 2009) and since.

— Swiss SECO Sanctions/Embargoes, 2023-04-20

Iranian general

— Wikidata non-official source, 2023-07-18

Relationships

Sanctions
Authority	Program	Start date	End date
Global Affairs Canada	Iran	-	-
State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO)	Ordinance of 11 November 2015 on measures against the Islamic Republic of Iran (SR 946.231.143.6), annexes 5-7	-	2016-05-18

Data sources

Swiss SECO Sanctions/Embargoes8,011

Switzerland manages a sanctions lists with a high degree of detail on the individuals that are subject to it's embargoes.

Switzerland · State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO)

Canadian Special Economic Measures Act Sanctions4,244

Sanctions imposed by Canada on specific countries, organizations, or individuals under the Special Economic Measures Act (SEMA) and JVCFOA.

Canada · Global Affairs Canada

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Wikidata224,184

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External dataset · Wikidata · non-official source

Source data IDs: NK-78mQQQAgcrUksSsakY2Poz · ca-sema-2-8-ir-hossein-hamadani · ch-seco-13085 · ca-sema-iran-2-8

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