Aseman Varzesh

This company, which was dissolved on Match 7, 2020, was an importer of “all permissible products, sports attire, shoes and equipment.” The official representative for Adidas and Reebok in Iran, it was closed after a government push to ban imports and focus on domestic production.

Aseman Varzesh was founded by the Rafiqdoust sons and their long-time business partner Mohammad-Hossein Hajjarzadeh. Hajjarzadeh’s daughter Mojan is the vice chairman of a Rafiqdoust family business called Tejarat Gostar Ofoq Nour—a position previously held by her husband Ehsan Alamdari. Sadra, Mohsen Rafiqdoust’s grandson, is board chairman of this import-export company.

Beh Kasht Sanat Nour Bamdad

This company’s articles of incorporation state it was created to “breed livestock including Murciana goats, obtaining loans and lines of credit from any and all domestic and international banks and credit institutions,” along with “livestock import-export, import of animal feed and purchasing machinery and equipment relevant to this business.”

Public records show Yasser Rafiqdoust is vice chairman, Amir Hossein Rafidoust is board chairman, and Saeed Rafiqdoust is the CEO of this company.

Nour Foundation

Yasser Rafiqdoust is a member and his brother Amir Hossein is vice chairman of this bonyad’s board of directors. Saeed Rafiqdoust is a trustee of Nour Foundation.

Mona Rafiqdoust

Daughter of Mohsen Rafiqdoust involved in various Rafiqdoust family businesses.

Saeed Rafiqdoust

Son of Mohsen Rafiqdoust involved in various Rafiqdoust family businesses.

Reza Rafiqdoust

Son of Mohammad Javad Rafiqdoust, Reza Rafiqdoust sits on the board of Islamic Coalition Martyrs’ Cultural Institution (see above) as well as Anvar Sobhan Tehran, which according to public records “establishes private schools at every level from kindergarten, and elementary, to middle school and high school as well as art school.”

Mohammad Javad Rafiqdoust

Mohammad Javad was one of the founding members of the Islamic Coalition Party and played an important role in opening the Refah School where Rouhollah Khomeini stayed upon returning to Iran following the 1979 Revolution. Khomeini stayed on the third floor while the second and first floors as well as the school’s basement were filled with prisoners. Sadeq Khalkhali, whom Khomeini later appointed as the chief justice of the Revolutionary Courts, sentenced 30 of the Pahlavi-era officials they were holding at the school to death, executing four of them on the rooftop.

Before his death, Mohammad Javad was a trustee and board chairman of Rah-e Shayestegan Institute. He was also the treasurer of the Refah Cultural Bonyad.

Morteza Rafiqdoust

Brother of Mohsen Rafiqdoust. Morteza received a life sentence for his role in a 123 trillion toman ($473 million dollar) embezzlement scandal in 1995, but his sentence was commuted after only eight years. While incarcerated, Morteza Rafiqdoust was appointed the purchasing agent for Evin Prison, which allowed him to leave the facility as he desired.

Morteza currently sits on the board of Dolatabad Trade, Construction and Technical Company (see above) and was previously a board inspector for Shafa Teb Naman, where his son Alireza Raqfiqdoust was an alternative inspector.

According to public records, Shafa Teb Naman is in the business of “opening and managing elective surgery centers, opening and managing plastic surgery clinics, procuring hospital, lab, surgical and OR equipment, and drugs and implements used in plastic surgery,” as well as “the technical supervision and execution of anything pertaining to the construction, interior design, exterior design, and green spaces of residential and commercial buildings, government organizations,” and “import-export of all permissible products.”

Alireza Rafiqdoust was also a founding member and vice chairman of the board of Samim Tadbir Parsa, an import-export company that “designs, produces, procures, distributes and sells kitchen equipment.”

Morteza’s wife, Zahra Mohtashamipour, and his other son, Hamidreza, were both on the board of Rahavard Samim Co., which “procures, distributes and produces kitchenware, fruits and vegetables, import-export of any and all permissible products and . . . participates in domestic and international seminars.” Hamidreza, who was the board chairman, later became the company’s dissolution manager.

Zahra Mohtashamipour was also an executive with Nik Padideh Yas Co., which “produces and distributes bedspreads.”

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