Moj Nikan Co
A car radio, antenna, and speaker manufacturer for Iran Khodro and Saipa, Iran’s biggest carmakers, which have ties to BTS, Tamin, and EIKO.
A car radio, antenna, and speaker manufacturer for Iran Khodro and Saipa, Iran’s biggest carmakers, which have ties to BTS, Tamin, and EIKO.
Established in Malaysia in 1997, this company “utilizes advanced composite materials in the design, manufacture and installation of architectural structures,” according to its website, and has a client base “in Europe, the Middle East, the US, Australia, and Asia.”
Established in the UAE in 1994, Iranian sources say the company specializes in finance, credit, and providing raw materials for factories. Bloomberg describes it as a “general trading company” and says its line of business includes “the wholesale distribution of electronic parts and electronic communications equipment.”
This import-export company is based in Japan and deals in organic fruit, dried fruit, processed fruits and vegetables, herbs, essential oils, saffron, and marine products from the Caspian Sea and Persian Gulf.
CEO and Board Member of Ahdaf Nikan. Akhavan is the founder of Omid Nikan Group, a holding company with subsidiaries inside and outside Iran including Akebono Boeki, Najm Al Afaq, DK Composites, Moj Nikan Co, Nour Ista Plastic, Noor Ista Khorasan, Vesal Qeshm, Paya Plast Iranian, Polymeri Tadbir Nikan Co., Emen Ista Electric Co., Towse-e Aria Peyvand Co. (Tapco), Tadbir Nikan Iran, Darougostar Tadbir Nikan, Bonsai Massage and Beauty, and SPA Hana.
Vice Chairman and Board Member of Ahdaf Nikan. Ghamkhar is an IRGC commander who was the Guards’ logistical director and head of the IRGC Nouh HQ during the 1980s war with Iraq. According to Tasnim, after the Iraq-Iran War, Ghamkhar headed the BM hotels and tourism division and later became the CEO of the IRGC Cooperative Foundation (BTS) for several years. He subsequently headed the Touring & Automobile Club of Iran and briefly became the CEO of FC Persepolis (three years). Ghamkhar also managed Fath Tehran FC and was the chairman of the board of Sabaye Qom FC.
This institution appears to be involved in charitable affairs and offers “necessary assistance to charities, the needy, the underprivileged, orphans and the elderly” and is involved in “opening/ building schools, clinics, hospitals and housing and in general undertaking public interest projects,” according to an item posted on the Entrepreneurship Center of the University of Science and Technology website.
Mohsen Rafiqdoust is the chairman of this company’s board of directors. The other two board members are Akbar Ghamkhar and Hossein Akhavan.
This mosque-building charity was founded in 2012. Its founding members include Mahmoud Lolachian (Khamenei family) as board chairman, Mohsen Rafiqdoust as vice chairman, Hossein Mir-Mohammad Sadeqi 10, Majid Shayesteh (Mohsen Qarati’s son-in-law), and Mojtaba Araqchi. With the exception of Shayesteh, everyone else on the founding board of this institute is also on the board of Imam Mahdi Cultural Bonyad (see below).
Mohsen Rafiqdoust is a trustee and current vice chairman of the board of directors.
The current and past board members and trustees of this charity include Ali Khamenei’s relatives such as Ebrahim Ansarian and Mahmoud Loulachian as well as former attorney general and current member of the Assembly of Experts Morteza Moqtadaei, former Rouhani chief-of-staff and current vice president for economic affairs Mohammad Nahavandian, and IEO founder Ala Mir-Mohammad Sadeqi.
This charity, which is affiliated with Khamenei relative Mahmoud Lolachian, works to promote “the culture of will writing” and to encourage people to bequeath one-third of their worldly possessions to the charity after their death, according to its website.
Mohsen Rafiqdoust, Ebrahim Asgarian Damavandi, and Ali Haji Seyyed Soleiman, who are all on the board of Etrat Fatemi Charity, are also on the board of Enfaq Sols.