Mohammed Ali Tolibov
Belarusian national OFAC lists as linked to Armory Alliance LLC; sanctioned May and November 2026.
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Why did Washington sanction Mohammed Ali Tolibov twice in six months?
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On 4 November 2026 the State Department designated Mohammed Ali Tolibov under Executive Order 13949, which targets Iran's conventional arms trade, and announced it the next day. State says he contributed to efforts by Armory Alliance LLC, a Belarus-based intermediary, to procure weapons for Iran. OFAC added the Iran conventional arms tag (IRAN-CON-ARMS-EO) to his existing listing.
He was already on OFAC's sanctions list. On 8 May 2026 Treasury designated him under Executive Order 13382, the non-proliferation order, for acting for or on behalf of Armory Alliance, which it designated the same day for supporting Iran's Center for Innovation and Technology Cooperation (CITC). That listing carried the non-proliferation (NPWMD) and Iranian Financial Sanctions Regulations (IFSR) tags, not the conventional arms tag.
OFAC lists him as a Belarusian national linked to Armory Alliance. Treasury says CITC has sought to buy weapons, including man-portable air defence systems (MANPADs), from China.
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