Iran International reports that Mostafa Ahadi, deputy head of Unit 600 of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) intelligence service, effectively controls Iranian oil sales. The outlet says brokers entrusted in recent months with selling sanctioned crude failed to deliver billions in expected revenue and accumulated overdue liabilities. These are media allegations, not facts established by a court.
According to the report, judiciary chief Gholamhossein Mohseni-Ejei criticised delays on Sept. 28 in cases involving brokers with overdue payments and called for rulings to be issued quickly. The Supreme National Security Council then reportedly asked the Intelligence Ministry and IRGC intelligence service for a report on outstanding payments. Iran International says the move could put the cases in the hands of an agency the outlet itself links to the oil-sales network.
The article portrays Ahadi as a central figure in the system overseeing oil deals that developed in the late 2010s, when sanctioned oil sales were assigned to the Supreme National Security Council. Iran International says he served there as deputy for economic affairs, attended BRICS summits in Russia and Brazil, and accompanied oil officials to terminals on Kharg Island. The report says Brigadier General Mehdi Sayari appointed him to Unit 600; Sayari later became acting head of a major security agency after Majid Khademi was killed.
The report also focuses on Mohammad Javad Bavan, described as Ahadi’s former subordinate. Iran International says Bavan represented IRGC intelligence on a council committee overseeing sanctioned oil sales, while his alleged main task was to secure profits for the intelligence network. After returning to the Oil Ministry about four months ago, Bavan reportedly assigned an 86-million-barrel cargo to four intermediaries with overdue debts.
One of them was Mohammad Hadi Momenin. The outlet says he was arrested on suspicion of disrupting the foreign-exchange system and corruption, and that his cases were closed following Bavan’s intervention. Citing a court report, the article says Momenin’s employees set up shell companies in China, Taiwan, Singapore and the United Arab Emirates that operated for three to 14 months. His holding company was also said to have received large loans from several Iranian banks, none of which, according to the report, filed a complaint. Iran International says the General Inspection Organisation had previously warned about Momenin’s role in oil sales.
The article alleges that Ahadi used his new position to return brokers’ cases to IRGC intelligence control after the reporting drew attention. Iran International also describes a closed meeting at IRGC media headquarters about two weeks earlier attended by Ahadi, Bavan and Abdullah Zeighami, allegedly aimed at preventing coverage of corruption cases. The outlet says reports were subsequently removed by Mehr news agency and the Hamshahri newspaper. The supplied text does not provide independent confirmation of these allegations.