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UK Sanctions List update: Added 1 new designation under the Iran sanctions regime.

Source
UK Sanctions List
Source link
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/the-uk-sanctions-list#change-2026-07-13T14:50:51Z
Published
2026-07-13 14:50:51
Discovered by ProcIntel
2026-08-08 09:24:49
Category
Regulation, Tariffs, Sanctions & Trade
Geography
United Kingdom
Organisations
Review status
Pending
Record type
REAL

Summary

Added 1 new designation under the Iran sanctions regime.

Possibly the same underlying story as Guidance: The UK Sanctions List — flagged automatically for review, never merged automatically.

Procurement Relevance Gate

PASS — score 22.8/100 — evaluated 2026-08-08 09:24:49
Passed on: regulation_sanctions_trade_controls, geographic_exposure (score 22.8/100, threshold 20.0).
  • regulation_sanctions_trade_controls (weight 12) — matched on "sanction"
  • geographic_exposure (weight 8) — matched on "1 linked geography"

Initial Signal Assessment ProcIntel's automatic, provisional read of this individual Signal -- Initial Significance and Initial Confidence, computed deterministically before any Event extraction or human review.

A provisional, automatically-computed reading of this individual Signal, before Event extraction or human review. Not a final rating.

Initial Significance
2 · Moderate (33.0/100)
Initial Confidence
2 · Low (39.0/100)
Data sufficiency Whether enough structured evidence exists to trust this Signal's Initial Confidence reading. 'Sufficient' has no cap; 'Partial' and 'Insufficient' cap Confidence until more evidence is available; 'Not Assessed' means the Signal did not pass the Relevance Gate.
Insufficient
Strongest contributor
Procurement Impact
Limiting factor
Impact-Scale Specificity

Initial Significance Moderate (33.0/100). Strongest contributor: Procurement Impact (21.0/30 points). Limiting factor: Impact-Scale Specificity (0.0/10 points). Initial Confidence Low (39/100, data sufficiency: Insufficient). Strongest contributor: Source Authority (40.0/40 points). Limiting factor: Specificity (0.0/20 points). Capped at 39 (Low) -- insufficient structured evidence to support a higher Confidence reading, regardless of source authority.

  • No likely Event type matched; a low contextual baseline was applied.
  • No eligible (non-geographic, non-fictional) entities were linked to this Signal.
  • no confidence-specificity evidence (actor entity, date, quantified value, or concrete verb)
  • no matched Event type
  • no actor entities (only attribution/metadata, if any)
  • no actor content-derived geography
  • Entities were mentioned as context or document attribution rather than as actors in the reported development, so they did not increase Initial Confidence.
  • Geographies were mentioned only in diplomatic reaction, commentary or background context rather than as the actor, event location or affected party in the reported development, so they did not increase Initial Confidence.

Methodology signal_scoring_v1 — calculated 2026-08-08 09:24:49.