DotOne Value Creation Group

OFAC designated DotOne Value Creation Group on 24 July 2026 alongside its Airlines, Barter, Gold, Rail and Trip arms, naming the holding company as the umbrella for Babak Zanjani's re-emerged Iranian business empire.

Zanjani re-emerged as chief executive and financial backer of the group after his 2016 death sentence was commuted to 20 years' imprisonment in April 2024. DotOne Rail secured an estimated $800 million contract with Iran's state railway in April 2025, and DotOne Gold has minted and custodied gold bars, including a gold-backed digital token marketed as Tala Token.

Treasury frames the group as the commercial ecosystem through which Zanjani has rebuilt sanctions-evasion capacity across transport, gold and payments, an airline, a barter Arm and a rail operator that Washington says cannot be quickly re-registered elsewhere. Several DotOne entities carry a secondary-sanctions flag, meaning banks that process their payments risk losing their own access to dollar clearing.