Affiliation: IRGC/APT35
Niloofar Bagheri (نیلوفر باقری) (National ID: 4270932864) is the head of the 'Sister's Team' (واحد خواهران) within Department 40, the IRGC's external cyber operations unit operating under Division 1500. She serves as CEO and Chairman of Aman Pardaz Ofogh Iranian (امن پرداز افق ایرانیان), a front company with registration number 14012549409, phone 02191096113, and website http://apoi.net. She is married to Abbas Rohroei, the overall commander of Department 40/APT35 operations. The Sister's Team consists of approximately 20 women engaged in various operational missions including: document translation from OSINT sources and specialized sources accessed by attack teams; analyzing and translating email content from compromised accounts; company and sector profiling for targeting; psychological warfare (PO) infrastructure maintenance (e.g., Abraham Ax, Moses Staff); and direct intelligence gathering operations. The team was personally involved in gathering intelligence on Israeli targets in Turkey to support Division 1500's Istanbul attack plot exposed in June 2022. The team operates from multiple bases including the main Shohada Base in Tehran and the Heravi Base.