Rocket Fuel to Iran Sanctions

Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has designated six entities and six individuals in Iran and the People’s Republic of China (PRC) for operating a procurement network that facilitates the supply of ballistic missile propellant ingredients to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).

The network has been involved in the procurement and shipment of sodium perchlorate and dioctyl sebacate from the PRC to Iran. Sodium perchlorate is a precursor to ammonium perchlorate, a material controlled under the Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR) and integral to the manufacture of solid propellant rocket motors. Dioctyl sebacate similarly supports the production of ballistic missile technology.