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Makran

IMO: 9486910

Overview

About This Vessel

IRIS Makran (Persian: مکران) was the first forward base ship of the Islamic Republic of Iran Navy, in service with its Southern Fleet from 2021 until its destruction in the 2026 Iran war. It was named after a coastal region in southeastern Iran. A former crude oil tanker converted into a warship, she was known with the tentative title Khalij-e Fars (lit. 'Persian Gulf', a name reserved for the lead ship of Project Loghman) before her name being changed to the current. Though not officially acknowledged, TankerTrackers, a firm that tracks maritime traffic, has identified her as a Japanese-built ship completed in 2010, previously named Beta and earlier Al Buhaira, and whose AIS signal was last detected in 2019 near United Arab Emirates. Her intended task/purpose was to support naval units in remote waters, especially in the North Indian Ocean, the Bab-el-Mandeb and the Red Sea.

Intelligence

Risk & Sustainability

Risk scoreCritical

25/ 100

Safety40

Compliance95

Environment50

Composite Risk

Risk Score

100/100

High risk40% component coverage

Strong, corroborated adverse evidence — a detention, sanctions exposure or an AIS-gap / behavioural signal.

PSC detentionsno data

Sanctions exposure100

AIS-gap & behaviour100

Hull ageno data

Flag registerno data

A coverage-weighted blend of the 2 components we could read for this hull — the weights renormalise over only the components present, so a thin read is never inflated and a hull is never credited a “safe 0” for a signal it has no row for. Higher means riskier. Derived in-house from government-open port-State-control, flag, sanctions and our own vessel data; weight it by the coverage above.

Sanctions exposure

critical

This vessel is directly sanctioned.

Regimes

OFAC

Chain depth

Hull listed

Confidence

verified

Evidence

imo: 9486910
list source: official:EU+OFAC+UK+UN
listed as: IRIS MAKRAN
method: vessel IMO is directly on an official sanctions list
path: vessel_listed
programs: IRAN

Screened against official OFAC, EU, UN and UK designations (In-house derivation over the OpenSanctions publishable subset, GLEIF LEI (CC0) and our own vessel/owner master. No new external source fetched.). An automated exposure signal for review, not a legal determination.

Transparency

Risk signals

Behavioural flags raised against this vessel — each shown with the raw evidence behind it. Derived in-house from data we are entitled to publish; informational, not a determination of wrongdoing.

AIS gapcriticalstrength 1.00

Stopped transmitting relative to the live feed front

Jun 23, 2026

On Sanctions List: yes
Regimes: OFAC

Method: vessel is on a sanctions list but has never appeared on our live AIS feed. Source: ais_positions (absence) + sanctioned_vessels.

Signals are a current-state view: a flag clears once the vessel stops tripping its detector. These are screening indicators, not a substitute for your own due diligence.

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