WASHINGTON—, according to company officials and regulatory filings.
The executive’s role at the two companies appears to violate U.S. sanctions, analysts said, and is expected to fuel concern among U.S. lawmakers critical of the administration’s Iran policy. Both companies contract with Iran’s state energy firms, including the blacklisted National Iranian Oil Company, and one of the firms is substantially owned by a sanctioned state-owned Iranian bank.
The sanctions removal, made at Mr. Ghalebani’s request, lifted financial blocks from any assets he may have had within the U.S. and affords him unfettered access to the U.S. and other foreign markets. Critics said the removals weakened the U.S.’s negotiating position, among other objections. Mr. Ghalebani continues to serve as an adviser to the chief executive of Iranian oil-services firm Global Petro Tech Kish, according to a representative of the company, and was chosen as chairman of a shareholders meeting in late May of petrochemical firm AzarAb Industries, according to a filing with the Iranian stock exchange.
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