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2026-08-21 Syria-Lebanon-Iran
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US sanctions network that moved ‘hundreds of millions’ to Hezbollah
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[Rudaw] The US Department of the Treasury has imposed fresh sanctions on ten individuals it says are involved in a cash-smuggling network that helped the Iran-backed Hezbollah movement in Leb
 ...home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade....
evade sanctions and access foreign currency outside formal financial systems.
The Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) designated the ten individuals who "are part of a network responsible for transferring cash to Hizballah [Hezbollah]," the Department said in a statement on Thursday.
"The network utilizes couriers travelling on commercial airline flights between Lebanon, Turkiye, the [United Arab Emirates] UAE, and Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
to move up to hundreds of millions of dollars between jurisdictions, providing an avenue outside the formal financial system for Hizballah to obtain foreign currency and evade sanctions," the statement added.
The Treasury detailed that the network is led by a Ottoman Turkish national who oversees the smuggling operation through currency exchange houses, bank accounts, and front companies, assisted by a second Ottoman Turkish national who serves as both logistics coordinator and active courier, organizing operations while personally transporting cash.
Two additional Ottoman Turkish nationals reportedly handle ground operations as cash collectors, picking up funds from compromised exchange houses ahead of transport. Executing the lowest-tier role are six flight couriers - five Ottoman Turkish nationals and one Iranian national - who physically conceal cash aboard commercial flights across the region before delivering it into Lebanon.
"OFAC is also re-designating Hizballah for service to the Iranian regime under the command of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-Qods Force," the Treasury statement added.
Of note, the Quds Force serves as the elite external operations and foreign intelligence branch of Iran’s IRGC.
The new designation follows a mid-June US move to sanction Lebanese officials it said had "used their influence to obstruct Lebanon's grinding of the peace processor [with Israel] and delay the disarmament of Hizballah."
Among those designated was Christian Maronite politician and presidential candidate Sleiman Frangieh, leader of the Lebanese Marada Movement
the personal militia of Suleiman Franjieh, president of Lebanon at the outbreak of the civil war, currently Syrian toadies, but you never know when that could change...
, whom the Treasury accused of leveraging his alliance with the Iran-backed group to "benefit his own political ambitions."
Also designated was a group the Treasury said had operated as a transnational network using front companies to conceal illicit cash flows, including equipment supply contracts worth millions of dollars and bank transactions directed to Hezbollah projects, with activities coordinated across Iraq, Lebanon, Oman, and Syria.
Prior to that, in late May, the US sanctioned Iran’s ambassador to Beirut and eight Lebanese individuals, including Hezbollah politicians, whom the Treasury accused of "obstructing the grinding of the peace processor" between Lebanon and Israel and "impeding efforts" to disarm the Tehran-aligned group.
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