Ali Reza Omidvar

Ali Reza Omidvar

Media close to the regime describe him as a manager of Atieh Bahar Group Companies. Mr. Omidvar has studied in universities of Tehran and Nottingham and has translated a book on "Rule of Companies". He was sentenced to prison for one of the cases referred to as "infiltration project" by media close to security forces, with no media coverage

  • <coverage-outsourcing id='10144'> Kayhan Newspaper, one of the most important media close to the security organizations, published a report titled "Where do the footprints of American Startups lead to?" with the news code 62374. In this report, Kayhan writes that he "is an important member" of the directing board of Karafarini Center, an old partner of Siamak Namazi and Bijan Khajehpour in Atieh Group, and founder of Promotion of the Rule of Responsibility Center "as another institution supporting the system of capitalism in Iran". Kayhan places him among the "oil brokers of Atieh Bahar Company" and says he "not only plays a role in the economic structure of the American project for changing Iran, but he is active in the NGO management as well which is the Namazi brothers' area of expertise, and he also offers consultation to "F.D" the Social Committee chairman of Tehran's city council." Kayhan also expresses astonishment over the fact that he was not targetted by the security forces after the 2009 and 2010 protests, and writes: > Omidvar's relentless efforts for the new projects of State Ministery of the America, and surviving the consequences of 2009 conspiracy despite the documents and clear evidence of his cooperation with Namazi-Khajehpour ring, must be quite puzzling for our country's security organizations </coverage-outsourcing>
  • <coverage-outsourcing id='10145'> Vatan Emrooz published a report titled "Behind the Scenes of Human Rights Developments" with the news code 156234, in which his name is mentioned among people playing a mediatory role between the Namazi family and the government authorities. He was also briefly identified as a person involved in the "Infiltration Project" also known as "Fetneh". In the language of media outlets close to the government, Infiltration is used to address the efforts to change Iran's policies after the nuclear deal, and Fetneh is referred to the protests for democracy after the 2009 election </coverage-outsourcing>
  • <coverage-outsourcing id='10146'> According to Fars, Abbas jafari Dolat Abadi, Attorney General of Tehran, while noting that there are important security, economic, and financial cases open at Tehran court whose details cannot be disclosed due to some considerations, announced that Bagher and Siamak Namazi, Farhad AbdeSaleh, Kamran Ghaderi, Nezar Zaka, and Ali Reza Omidvar have each been sentenced to ten years in prison on the charges of "Espionage and cooperation with American government" </coverage-outsourcing>
  • <coverage-outsourcing id='10164'> The spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Iran stated that: > Any attempts made to relate Iran's domestic affairs, such as the independent judicial verdicts of Iranian courts against criminals and foreign spies, to the international business and investments in Iran is a futile and unprovoked effort to impact the international community's cooperation with the Islamic Republic. </coverage-outsourcing>
  • <coverage-outsourcing id='10158'> Nasim Online claimed that Bagher and Siamak Namazi, Farhad Abdesaleh, Kamran Ghaderi, Nezar Zaka, and Ali Reza Omidvar have received over 4 million and 800 thousand dollars from enemy governments for executing their projects, and by judicial verdict they are obligated to surrender this amount. Meanwhile, in 2015 the supreme court had issued a verdict regarding Omid Kokabi's case which stated that currently there are no countries in conflict with Iran, and conflict does not mean political disagreements with other countries, and that the court has misinterpreted the term </coverage-outsourcing>
  • <coverage-outsourcing id='18940'> Abbas Jafari Dolatabadi, the chief prosecutor of Tehran confirmed the two year prison sentence of “Ali Reza A.” on the charge of “collusion with the American government”. It seems likely that Ali Reza Omidvar was the person the prosecutor had in mind </coverage-outsourcing>