Newly leaked documents showcased various strategies employed by the Islamic Republic of Iran to bypass United States sanctions, which were exposed in a hack of the Iran parliament.
The papers disclosed that Tehran’s parliament collaborated with specific Iranian entities and individuals to help them conduct trade activities while hiding their identities and affiliations from international regulatory authorities. These efforts involved altering purchase documents and customs regulations and providing banking incentives and foreign currency support to mitigate the impacts of sanctions.
“The Islamic Republic’s oil revenue—almost all of which comes from China—funds its brutal repression of the Woman, Life, Freedom movement and violent anti-American extremist groups abroad,” said Jerry Canto, an analyst at United Against Nuclear Iran (UANI).
“That is why the regime employs the deceptive practices disclosed in the leaks and why it incentivizes key players to enter the industry or continue with their business operations despite sanctions and other risks,” he added.
According to Khaneh Mellat News Agency, Uprising till Overthrow, was the group that claimed that they successfully penetrated 600 primary servers belonging to various parliamentary departments, including the commission, main chamber, parliamentary assistance, parliament bank, and other administrative-related servers.
One of the many internal communications and confidential documents disclosed on Tuesday was a 14-page letter detailing various strategies for circumventing sanctions and backing individuals and entities under sanction, which were deliberated during a meeting of Iran’s Sanctions Counteraction Headquarters in August of last year.
