The Confidential Credit Code of the Supreme National Security Council and the Oil Mafia
Mirmohammadi and Yahya Alavi, survivors of the network of Ali Shamkhani, the former Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council, have so far, with their unparalleled authority in granting the credit code ‘Shaam’—which is the criterion for determining the ceiling of bank guarantees for oil exporters—created major oil cartels with Hossein Shamkhani and Ali Bayendarian and Adman Nafariyeh.
The covert committee of the Supreme National Security Council has special powers to lift sanction restrictions on Iran’s oil exports. State and private institutions and organizations are obliged to implement the extralegal resolutions of this committee.
The decisions of this committee are implemented extralegally in various institutions. According to an important resolution, the responsibility for determining the credit ceiling for issuing currency guarantees for buyers and exporters of oil and oil products is one of the special powers of the covert committee of the Security Council, which is referred to as the credit code of the Supreme National Security Council.
For years, this committee has been Ali Shamkhani’s private backyard, through which he has created large and exclusive rents for his son, Hossein Shamkhani.
Yahya Alavi, the secretary of the covert committee, who has extensive experience in creating state rents, engages in creating rents in the country’s revenue-generating sectors. The committee’s influence in profitable state transactions and its influence in banks is carried out through Yahya Alavi, the committee secretary, and by using his connections in security institutions.
Yahya Alavi’s influence is such that he can easily communicate his demands to bank CEOs through calls or text messages. It is well-known that a text message from Yahya Alavi in the banking and oil sectors has a far greater impact than the signature of the Leader of the Islamic Republic.
Yahya Alavi has recently, while retaining his position in Shaam, become an advisor to Mohammad Mokhber, entering the office of the First Vice President, adding new dimensions to this story.
