US issues fresh Iran-related sanctions as conflict flares
Treasury said Ansari diverted public funds into overseas assets while exchange houses moved billions for sanctioned Iranian banks through shell companies.
- On Friday, the United States imposed new sanctions targeting Ali Ansari, a "key financier" for Iranian Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei, and 13 others following Tehran's resumed attacks on oil tankers in the Strait of Hormuz.
- The Treasury Department revoked a general license on Tuesday allowing Iranian oil sales, responding to Iran's "wholly unacceptable" strikes on commercial tankers in the Strait of Hormuz.
- Treasury officials alleged Ansari diverted public wealth into overseas real estate and commercial holdings, while sanctions targeted three exchange houses including Khandan Exchange, which holds more than $117 million in foreign currency for sanctioned banks.
- State Department spokesperson Tommy Pigott stated the US is "directly disrupting the regime's ability to access foreign currency," while Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the department will "continue using every tool at its disposal" to isolate regime elites.
- Brett Erickson, managing principal at Obsidian Risk Advisors, said the sanctions signal a major shift in Washington's approach, noting "Washington is no longer trying to salvage the existing framework. It's preparing to replace it entirely.
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The measures include restrictions on eight individuals and six entities, including Ali Ansari, noted by Washington as an alleged “Iranian financial facilitator.”
The United States government has imposed sanctions on a financial institution based in Dubai accused of facilitating the diversion of public funds to the benefit of the Iranian regime's elites. In a statement from the U.S. Treasury Department, Ali Ansari, of Iranian nationality, is presented as a key financial institution of the supreme guide, Mojtaba Khamenei. According to the document, released on Friday, Ansari has institutionalized the diver…
U.S. sanctions Iranian financier, exchange houses over attacks in Strait of Hormuz
The United States has imposed sanctions on Iranian financier Ali Ansari and several currency exchange houses accused of moving billions of dollars for sanctioned banks, following Iran’s resumption of attacks on international shipping in the Strait of Hormuz, the Treasury Department announced Friday. The sanctions targets Ansari, his Saint Kitts and Nevis-based holding company, three Iranian exchange houses, seven of their executives and two fron…
US Treasury Sanctions Financier Linked to Iran’s Supreme Leader, Shadow Currency Networks
The Treasury Department on Thursday designated a key financier for Iranian leader Mojtaba Khamenei and several Iranian shadow exchange houses along with their operators and front companies. The Office of Foreign Assets Control imposed the measures under executive orders targeting Iran’s financial sector and the Supreme Leader’s network. The designations block all property and interests in property of the named parties that are in the United Stat…
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