Mohammad-Javad Azari Jahromi

Azari Jahromi was born in Jahrom, Fars Province and was raised in a poor family. During the Iran-Iraq War, his 16-year-old brother was killed.[6] He studied electrical engineering at the Power and Water University of Technology, where he met his future wife.[6]

Azari Jahromi worked at the Ministry of Intelligence from 2002 to 2009,[2] where he for some time held managerial positions and was involved in crackdown of 2009 election protests.[3] From 2009 to 2014, he served as general manager of the communications systems security department at the Communication Regulatory Authority.[5] He then became ex-officio vice minister of information and communications technology, in his capacity as the chairman of Telecommunications Infrastructure Company.[5] Jahrami was also a non-executive member of the board of directors at RighTel between 2014 and 2016.[5]

In November 2019, the U.S. Treasury Department sanctioned Azari "for his role in the Iranian regime’s widescale internet censorship," freezing any of his U.S. assets and banning U.S. persons from doing business with him.[7]

Meeting between Mohammad-Javad Azari Jahromi and Ebrahim Shafiei

One of the Iranian hackers named Ebrahim Shafiei unveiled his creation, the first Iranian hacking OS in the world, in the presence of Mohammad-Javad Azari Jahromi. This product, called "BlackWin OS," is a competitor to its American counterpart, Kali Linux. However, Ebrahim Shafiei and his team, known as the Abadal Security Team, did not receive any support from the Iranian government.