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US Sanctions Networks Funding Lebanon’s Hezbollah
The U.S. Treasury sanctioned Hezbollah operatives who laundered over $1 billion from Iran through Lebanese money exchanges to fund paramilitary and infrastructure activities.
- On Thursday, the U.S. Department of the Treasury announced sanctions on Osama Jaber, Jafar Mohammad Qasir, and Samer Kasbar, blocking U.S. property and transactions under Executive Order 13224.
- Since January 2025, Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-Quds Force transferred over one billion dollars to Hezbollah, mostly through licensed and unlicensed Lebanese money exchange companies; the Treasury said funds supported Hezbollah forces and resisted Lebanese authority.
- Treasury filings show Ja'far Muhammad Qasir and Samer Kasbar coordinated sales and shipments of Iranian oil, metals, and chemicals, working with Syrian businessman Yasser Hussein Ibrahim.
- The Treasury framed the move as encouraging behavioral change, with Hurley saying `Lebanon has an opportunity to be free, prosperous, and secure, but that can only happen if Hezbollah is fully disarmed and cut off from Iran’s funding and control`.
- The sanctions were announced as Israel carried out new airstrikes in southern Lebanon and U.S. officials pressed Beirut to accelerate Hezbollah's disarmament amid strikes killing over 150 people since November 2024.
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Trump admin sanctions Hezbollah operatives pulling in illicit funds from Iran
Trump admin sanctions Hezbollah operatives pulling in illicit funds from Iran. “Lebanon has an opportunity to be free, prosperous and secure,” per the U.S. Treasury Department, “but that can only happen if Hezbollah is fully disarmed and cut off from Iran’s funding and control.” The post Trump admin sanctions Hezbollah operatives pulling in illicit funds from Iran appeared first on Jerusalem World News.
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The U.S. Treasury Department sanctioned Hezbollah operatives, who, according to the agency, exploited Lebanon's monetary economy to channel more than $1 billion to the terrorist group this year, the agency announced on Thursday.Read more]]>
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