The US Division of the Treasury‘s Workplace of International Belongings Management (OFAC) has sanctioned three entities and one particular person in Lebanon and Turkey for offering essential monetary help to the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-Qods Power (IRGC-QF) and the Hezbollah monetary community.
Below Secretary of the Treasury for Terrorism and Monetary Intelligence Brian E. Nelson emphasised the resolve to forestall these teams from exploiting the worldwide buying and selling system for his or her destabilizing actions.
Lebanon-based Yara Offshore SAL, an affiliated firm of Hezbollah, facilitated important gross sales of Iranian commodities to the Syrian regime, receiving thousands and thousands of {dollars} in return. Yara additionally carried out transactions on behalf of US-designated Hezbollah and IRGC-QF entrance firm Concepto Display screen SAL.
One other Lebanese firm, Hydro Firm for Drilling Tools Rental, was designated underneath EO 13224 for offering materials help to the IRGC-QF. It was concerned in financing the IRGC-QF by facilitating the cargo of Iranian commodities price a whole lot of thousands and thousands of {dollars} to Syria.
Each Yara Offshore SAL and Hydro Firm for Drilling Tools Rental have been designated for materially aiding, sponsoring, or offering monetary help to Hezbollah and the IRGC-QF.
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