Who’s your Agha Dadi?
One of the things we initially overlooked in the recent media investigation into SPND front company DamavandTec was a single fleeting reference to an IRGC commander named Hossein Ali Agha Dadi. Practically as a throwaway line, the reporters stated that Agha Dadi “has held senior roles in companies responsible for Iran’s ballistic missile and drone programmes, including development of the Shahed model given by Iran to Russia to attack Ukraine.” We must admit we’d not heard of Agha Dadi before, despite being both Extremely Online and obsessed with everything to do with Iran’s military and WMD-related programmes. So, we did our usual online search for Agha Dadi’s name – starting in English – and found virtually nothing. That’s the kind of challenge that we immediately had to pursue! Turns out that Agha Dadi is quite an interesting figure, and we’re surprised that he has never found much of a public profile. Let’s remedy that. Come to Dadi First we hit Iranian business records ...
