On Monday, June 6, the Terrorist Financing Targeting Center (TFTC), affiliated with the U.S. Treasury Department, sanctioned 16 individuals, entities, and groups affiliated with several terrorist individuals and entities in the Middle East.
The TFTC is a U.S. government body tasked with enhancing multilateral efforts among the U.S. and the Gulf countries, including Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), to counter regional money laundering and terrorist financing networks.
The Iranian regime rejected to join the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) in 2021, which indicated the mullahs’ desire to spread terror and instability across the region.
The theocracy’s 43 years of corruption and plundering policies was another deadlock for Iranian authorities’ avoidance of transparency.
In the regime’s latest incident, their longstanding and systematic corruption has resulted in human catastrophes like the collapse of the Metropol twin towers in Abadan on May 23, killing more than 40 victims and leaving many more citizens injured or trapped under the rubble. Treasury Department
According to the TFTC statement, all of the latest targets had been previously designated by the U.S., including individuals associated with Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-Quds Force (IRGC-QF), the Iran-backed Saraya al-Ashtar and Saraya al-Mukhtar in Bahrain, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), and the Nigerian Boko Haram.
Who Has Been Sanctioned?
“Ali Qasir, Meghdad Amini, and Morteza Hashemi are part of two networks directed by, and providing financial support to, the IRGC-QF and its terrorist proxy Hezbollah,” the TFTC statement read.
“These complex networks of intermediaries allow the IRGC-QF to obfuscate its involvement in selling Iranian oil.
The IRGC-QF also relies on these individuals to launder money for Hezbollah officials and front companies and to broker associated contracts.”
Who Is Ali Qasir?
Ali Qasir is a Lebanese businessman affiliated with the IRGC-QF. He is Hezbollah’s key element for circumventing sanctions and facilitating the IRGC-QF’s banking transactions.