Ali Reza Jazini

Jazini is a military commander who has held various positions in the Iranian Police (NAJA), including advisor to the SL’s NAJA affairs deputy, commander of the Iranian Prevention Police, NAJA Deputy Coordinator, and deputy secretary general of the Iran Drug Control Headquarters.

Reyhaneh Charity

This charitable organization is owned by Motallebi Kashani, who serves as both board chairman and CEO. It was founded in 2003 with the stated aim of “caring for the elderly and disabled” and “offering hospital services and procuring medicine domestically through donations or internationally through imports.”

Reyhaneh brings together Motallebi Kashani’s long-time business partners Mehrdad Nouri and Mahmoud Khosravikia, and Mohammad Reza Kholqi as well as Ali Reza Jazini. Jazini is a military commander who has held various positions in the Iranian Police (NAJA), including advisor to the SL’s NAJA affairs deputy, commander of the Iranian Prevention Police, NAJA Deputy Coordinator, and deputy secretary general of the Iran Drug Control Headquarters.

Akbar Ebrahimi

A well-connected conservative with close ties to the powerful echelons of the elite. Ebrahimi recently signed an agreement to build schools in Kerman in a ceremony attended by former Quds Force commander Qassem Soleimani’s brother Sohrab. Ebrahimi has funded the expansion of the Abdolazim and Imam Khomeini shrines.

National Council of Charities (NCC)

An umbrella NGO comprising eight family-owned foundations. Reza Motallebi Kashani is one of its founding members. Another notable member of the organization’s founding board is Mostafa Pourmohammadi, who served as Revolution Court prosecutor (1979–1986), deputy intelligence minister (1987–1999), interior minister (2005–2008), and justice minister (2013–2017).

Tak Makaron

This pasta brand formerly belonged to the Sadeqians, a family with other business interests in the food and textile sectors. Kashani assumed ownership of the company in 2018 under murky circumstances, with no public record of the sale.

Aside from various types of dry pasta, the brand sells imitations of US breakfast cereals such as Cocoa Puffs and Nabisco Shredded Wheat. Last year, Tak Makaron reportedly played a part in creating a pasta shortage as part of a price-gouging scheme, according to Eqtesad Online.

Reza Motallebi Kashani

Pasta tycoon whose vast business network includes more than 94 individuals, including a former Revolution Court prosecutor linked to human rights violations, a Tehran city councilman who served as vice president in the late Hashemi Rafsanjani’s administration, and a Friday prayer leader infamous for stating that inadequately covered women cause earthquakes.

Motallebi Kashani’s network consists of charities, religious institutions, and a range of businesses including pasta factories, international traders, engineering firms, and oil and gas companies. Many of the organizations he is involved with put him in direct contact with the higher echelons of the Islamic Republic, including Friday prayer leaders, current and former ministers, MPs and city council members, Quds Force officers, and members of Supreme Leader Khamenei’s family.

Saeed Lahouti Eshkevari

Not much is known about Fatemeh Hashemi Bahramani’s husband, Saeed, who has kept a very low profile. But he works at Akhtar Hospital, which was once the American Army hospital and transferred to Bonyad Mostazafan after the Revolution.

Institute for Research, Education, and Treatment of Cancer (aka Cancer Research, Training, and Prevention Institute)

This institute was founded on July 11, 1998. It falls under the CFSD umbrella and is dedicated to cancer research and treatment as well as helping sufferers and their families to cope with a cancer diagnosis. According to its website, the institute is building a hospital that “will be completed within three years”— there is no indication of when that three-year span began or is supposed to end. Fatemeh Hashemi has been the vice chairman of its board of directors since August 2015. Her uncle Mohammad Hashemi Bahramani, Rafsanjani’s youngest brother, has been its CEO and board chairman since at least 2008. Fatemeh’s cousin Ali Hashemi (Bahramani) is also a former board member.

Soudeh Medical and Treatment Center

Fatemeh Hashemi Bahramani was formerly the chairman of this CFSD subsidiary’s board of directors. Hossein Marashi (MMC) is its current board chairman. Baqer Larijani, former Majles speaker Ali Larijani’s brother, has been a board member since at least 2015.

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