Investigate the Misuse of U.S. Passports and End Financial Discrimination Against Irania
The Issue
I want international financial authorities to investigate the misuse of U.S. passports and identities as fronts for companies and financial accounts, while protecting law-abiding Iranian citizens from disproportionate financial exclusion based solely on nationality.
Why I Am Starting This Petition
My name is HOSSEIN ATAR JANNESAR NOBARI, and I am the initial petitioner of this campaign.
I am Iranian.
I have never personally committed money laundering, terrorism financing, human trafficking, drug trafficking, illicit arms trafficking or any other financial crime. Yet, like millions of other law-abiding Iranians, I can face serious barriers to international banking, payments and legitimate international commerce simply because of my nationality and connection to Iran.
This raises a question that I believe the international community must confront.
Why should nationality determine whether a person is trusted by the international financial system before that person has done anything wrong?
The U.S. passport problem
At the same time, I am deeply concerned about a different vulnerability: the potential misuse of U.S. passports and identities as trusted financial and corporate identities.
I am specifically asking authorities to investigate whether homeless, unemployed, financially vulnerable or economically inactive Americans—with little or no genuine commercial background—are being recruited or used as nominal owners, directors, shareholders or account holders for companies and financial structures actually controlled by other people.
The concern is not that American citizens are inherently trustworthy or untrustworthy.
The concern is that the credibility associated with a U.S. passport may be exploited by third parties to create an appearance of legitimacy, obtain corporate or banking access, and conceal the actual beneficial owner or controller.
A passport proves identity and nationality.
It does not prove who actually controls a company.
It does not prove the legitimate source of its wealth.
And it does not prove that the person named on corporate documents is the ultimate beneficiary of the money.
A global financial vulnerability
This deserves investigation in major financial and commercial centers, including the United States, London and the United Kingdom, Hong Kong, Singapore, Germany, Switzerland and the United Arab Emirates, as well as other international financial jurisdictions.
A company can be incorporated in one jurisdiction, maintain bank accounts in another, conduct transactions through several countries and ultimately be controlled by someone entirely different from the person whose name appears on the documents.
If the true beneficial owner is concealed, such structures can potentially be exploited for serious transnational crimes.
These include money laundering, drug trafficking, human trafficking, illicit arms trafficking, organized fraud, sanctions evasion and the financing of illegal armed networks.
Financial networks can also potentially be abused for the illicit movement of restricted military-related goods and technology, including drones, missiles and controlled components, as well as other forms of organized cross-border crime.
I am not claiming that every American citizen, American company or financial institution participates in these activities.
I am asking for something much more precise:
Investigate whether U.S. citizens and their identities are being deliberately used as front identities for people who are the actual owners or controllers of financial and commercial activity.
The contradiction facing Iranians
This issue becomes even more disturbing when compared with the treatment of ordinary Iranian citizens.
An Iranian entrepreneur may have a clean personal record, a legitimate business, documented assets and a lawful source of income—and still encounter severe restrictions on banking, payments, international transfers or commercial relationships.
The individual may never have been accused of money laundering.
They may never have financed terrorism.
They may never have trafficked drugs or weapons.
They may never have violated a financial law.
Yet their nationality can itself become a reason for heightened scrutiny or exclusion.
Meanwhile, a person who is an American citizen—including a homeless or financially vulnerable American with little genuine financial or commercial history—may begin from a fundamentally different position because of the credibility and access associated with a U.S. identity.
That is the contradiction I am asking the international community to examine.
One standard for everyone
I am not asking for special treatment for Iranians.
I am not asking for restrictions against Americans.
I am asking for the same principle to apply to both.
If the international financial system is serious about fighting money laundering and organized crime, it should identify:
the ultimate beneficial owner;
the actual controller of a company;
the source of wealth;
the source of funds;
the real commercial activity;
the person’s sanctions status; and
the actual financial risk.
A U.S. passport should not substitute for these checks.
An Iranian passport should not substitute for evidence of criminal conduct either.
What I am asking for
I call upon the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), INTERPOL and relevant financial regulators and law-enforcement authorities to:
1. Investigate whether homeless, financially vulnerable or economically inactive U.S. citizens are being used as nominal owners, directors, shareholders or account holders for businesses controlled by third parties.
2. Investigate whether U.S. passports or identities are being deliberately used to obtain corporate or banking access while concealing the true beneficial owner.
3. Strengthen international verification of Ultimate Beneficial Ownership (UBO).
4. Require enhanced due diligence when an individual’s financial circumstances or genuine commercial history are inconsistent with the scale of the companies or transactions associated with that individual.
5. Examine corporate and banking structures operating through major financial centers including the United States, London, Hong Kong, Singapore, Germany, Switzerland and the United Arab Emirates.
6. Strengthen international cooperation against financial structures used for money laundering, trafficking, illicit arms transfers, organized fraud, sanctions evasion and financing of illegal armed networks.
7. Protect lawful economic activity by creating transparent procedures through which law-abiding Iranian individuals and businesses can demonstrate their identity, beneficial ownership, lawful source of funds and legitimate commercial purpose.
8. Ensure that nationality alone is not treated as proof of criminal conduct.
My appeal
I am asking the international community to look at this issue from both sides.
A trusted identity should not become a shield behind which the real owner of a financial operation can hide.
And an Iranian identity should not become a reason to treat a law-abiding person as a criminal before any individual wrongdoing has been established.
Criminal networks should not be able to hide behind legitimate identities.
Legitimate people should not be punished merely because of theirs.
I, HOSSEIN ATAR JANNESAR NOBARI, ask you to sign this petition and support an international financial system based on evidence, transparency, beneficial ownership and actual conduct—not nationality alone.
HOSSEIN ATAR JANNESAR NOBARI
Initial Petitioner
حسین عطار جاننثار نوبری
بازرگانی جاننثار
جانسار
جاننسار
جاننثار
جانثار
جاننثار
بازرگانی نوبری
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The Issue
I want international financial authorities to investigate the misuse of U.S. passports and identities as fronts for companies and financial accounts, while protecting law-abiding Iranian citizens from disproportionate financial exclusion based solely on nationality.
Why I Am Starting This Petition
My name is HOSSEIN ATAR JANNESAR NOBARI, and I am the initial petitioner of this campaign.
I am Iranian.
I have never personally committed money laundering, terrorism financing, human trafficking, drug trafficking, illicit arms trafficking or any other financial crime. Yet, like millions of other law-abiding Iranians, I can face serious barriers to international banking, payments and legitimate international commerce simply because of my nationality and connection to Iran.
This raises a question that I believe the international community must confront.
Why should nationality determine whether a person is trusted by the international financial system before that person has done anything wrong?
The U.S. passport problem
At the same time, I am deeply concerned about a different vulnerability: the potential misuse of U.S. passports and identities as trusted financial and corporate identities.
I am specifically asking authorities to investigate whether homeless, unemployed, financially vulnerable or economically inactive Americans—with little or no genuine commercial background—are being recruited or used as nominal owners, directors, shareholders or account holders for companies and financial structures actually controlled by other people.
The concern is not that American citizens are inherently trustworthy or untrustworthy.
The concern is that the credibility associated with a U.S. passport may be exploited by third parties to create an appearance of legitimacy, obtain corporate or banking access, and conceal the actual beneficial owner or controller.
A passport proves identity and nationality.
It does not prove who actually controls a company.
It does not prove the legitimate source of its wealth.
And it does not prove that the person named on corporate documents is the ultimate beneficiary of the money.
A global financial vulnerability
This deserves investigation in major financial and commercial centers, including the United States, London and the United Kingdom, Hong Kong, Singapore, Germany, Switzerland and the United Arab Emirates, as well as other international financial jurisdictions.
A company can be incorporated in one jurisdiction, maintain bank accounts in another, conduct transactions through several countries and ultimately be controlled by someone entirely different from the person whose name appears on the documents.
If the true beneficial owner is concealed, such structures can potentially be exploited for serious transnational crimes.
These include money laundering, drug trafficking, human trafficking, illicit arms trafficking, organized fraud, sanctions evasion and the financing of illegal armed networks.
Financial networks can also potentially be abused for the illicit movement of restricted military-related goods and technology, including drones, missiles and controlled components, as well as other forms of organized cross-border crime.
I am not claiming that every American citizen, American company or financial institution participates in these activities.
I am asking for something much more precise:
Investigate whether U.S. citizens and their identities are being deliberately used as front identities for people who are the actual owners or controllers of financial and commercial activity.
The contradiction facing Iranians
This issue becomes even more disturbing when compared with the treatment of ordinary Iranian citizens.
An Iranian entrepreneur may have a clean personal record, a legitimate business, documented assets and a lawful source of income—and still encounter severe restrictions on banking, payments, international transfers or commercial relationships.
The individual may never have been accused of money laundering.
They may never have financed terrorism.
They may never have trafficked drugs or weapons.
They may never have violated a financial law.
Yet their nationality can itself become a reason for heightened scrutiny or exclusion.
Meanwhile, a person who is an American citizen—including a homeless or financially vulnerable American with little genuine financial or commercial history—may begin from a fundamentally different position because of the credibility and access associated with a U.S. identity.
That is the contradiction I am asking the international community to examine.
One standard for everyone
I am not asking for special treatment for Iranians.
I am not asking for restrictions against Americans.
I am asking for the same principle to apply to both.
If the international financial system is serious about fighting money laundering and organized crime, it should identify:
the ultimate beneficial owner;
the actual controller of a company;
the source of wealth;
the source of funds;
the real commercial activity;
the person’s sanctions status; and
the actual financial risk.
A U.S. passport should not substitute for these checks.
An Iranian passport should not substitute for evidence of criminal conduct either.
What I am asking for
I call upon the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), INTERPOL and relevant financial regulators and law-enforcement authorities to:
1. Investigate whether homeless, financially vulnerable or economically inactive U.S. citizens are being used as nominal owners, directors, shareholders or account holders for businesses controlled by third parties.
2. Investigate whether U.S. passports or identities are being deliberately used to obtain corporate or banking access while concealing the true beneficial owner.
3. Strengthen international verification of Ultimate Beneficial Ownership (UBO).
4. Require enhanced due diligence when an individual’s financial circumstances or genuine commercial history are inconsistent with the scale of the companies or transactions associated with that individual.
5. Examine corporate and banking structures operating through major financial centers including the United States, London, Hong Kong, Singapore, Germany, Switzerland and the United Arab Emirates.
6. Strengthen international cooperation against financial structures used for money laundering, trafficking, illicit arms transfers, organized fraud, sanctions evasion and financing of illegal armed networks.
7. Protect lawful economic activity by creating transparent procedures through which law-abiding Iranian individuals and businesses can demonstrate their identity, beneficial ownership, lawful source of funds and legitimate commercial purpose.
8. Ensure that nationality alone is not treated as proof of criminal conduct.
My appeal
I am asking the international community to look at this issue from both sides.
A trusted identity should not become a shield behind which the real owner of a financial operation can hide.
And an Iranian identity should not become a reason to treat a law-abiding person as a criminal before any individual wrongdoing has been established.
Criminal networks should not be able to hide behind legitimate identities.
Legitimate people should not be punished merely because of theirs.
I, HOSSEIN ATAR JANNESAR NOBARI, ask you to sign this petition and support an international financial system based on evidence, transparency, beneficial ownership and actual conduct—not nationality alone.
HOSSEIN ATAR JANNESAR NOBARI
Initial Petitioner
حسین عطار جاننثار نوبری
بازرگانی جاننثار
جانسار
جاننسار
جاننثار
جانثار
جاننثار
بازرگانی نوبری
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Petition created on September 3, 2026