ArvanCloud

ArvanCloud's English-language website presents a portfolio including cloud servers, content delivery, object storage, containers, video services, and managed databases. It also lists developer interfaces and infrastructure-management tools. The breadth of this catalog helps explain why the company appears in discussions of several parts of Iran's digital infrastructure. A product listing establishes what the supplier advertises, rather than independently confirming service quality, geographic availability, or customer adoption. s1

Abr Arvan is another name used for the company in independent discussion. This profile treats those names as referring to the same provider, while retaining the different spellings used by its sources. s4

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The company's object-storage page describes keeping bulk files, application data, logs, backups, and unstructured information. It lists management tools including CyberDuck, S3Browser, Rclone, and Veeam, and connects the storage offering with other services in its portfolio. These descriptions show a practical use of cloud infrastructure: an application or organization can retain files through a managed service and use separate tools to move or manage them. s2

The page also promotes storage as part of disaster recovery. That is a provider claim about intended use, not evidence that a particular customer's data can be restored successfully after every failure. The inspected material does not establish independently tested recovery outcomes, and this profile does not reproduce the page's performance guarantees as verified results. s2

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On June 2, 2023, the US Treasury announced sanctions against Arvan Cloud, senior employees, and an affiliated company. Treasury attributed the action to facilitation of Iranian internet censorship and described the company's involvement in the National Information Network, Iran's domestic network project. These are the US government's stated grounds for its action; this profile does not present them as findings of an independently adjudicated case. s3

The European Union's position subsequently changed. In commentary published on May 2, 2024, Carnegie researcher Mahsa Alimardani reported that the EU had removed Abr Arvan from its sanctions list the previous month, after listing it in 2022. She criticized that decision and connected the controversy to broader concerns about state control of internet infrastructure. Her article is an attributed policy assessment, not a neutral legal determination. s4

Access Now's 2023 sanctions report described mixed reactions to the US designation. It noted arguments favoring accountability for censorship alongside concerns about targeting a provider of essential infrastructure and tools used to circumvent restrictions. Together, these sources explain why the company cannot be understood solely through its product catalog. They do not establish its complete sanctions status at the editorial cutoff. s5

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