Tag: U.S. Treasury Department
Trump admin lodges new sanctions on Iranian energy exports
The U.S. Treasury Department sanctioned more than 50 individuals, entities and vessels involved in the export of Iranian energy.
“These actors have collectively enabled the export of billions of dollars’ worth of petroleum and petroleum...
US Treasury sanctions individuals, entities linked to Iran’s ‘shadow banking’
The Trump administration is sanctioning two Iranian national financial facilitators, as well as more than a dozen other individuals and entities, that are part of Iran’s “shadow banking” network aimed at facilitating funding transfers...
US designates people, entities, many with ties to China, for supplying weapons to Houthis
The U.S. Treasury Department designated three people, six companies and a vessel that it said are connected to procuring weapons for the Houthi terrorists.
“The Houthis’ continued, indiscriminate and reckless attacks against unarmed commercial vessels...
US, UK designate five ‘key financial facilitators’ of Hamas
Washington and London announced sanctions on Wednesday against five “key financial facilitators involved in fundraising for Hamas.”
The sanctions—the fourth such round of designations since Oct. 7—target Gaza Now and its founder and director Mustafa Ayash and...
US Treasury sanctions Hezbollah supporters in South America
A charcoal export business has now been exposed as one cog in a terrorism funding machine crossing continents to support Iran’s efforts to expunge the Jewish state.
The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets...
US takes action against six entities helping Iran oil industry
The U.S. government on Monday designated and sanctioned six entities as helping with “illicit transactions related to Iranian petroleum” and related products, “key sources of revenue for the Iranian government.”
It is one more wrench...
US Treasury targets Russian-backed Iranian oil-smuggling network
On the day that the Biden administration point man on Iran testified before a Senate committee, the U.S. Treasury Department announced a new sanctions package targeting an oil-smuggling and money-laundering network belonging to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary...
US Treasury targets Hamas investment portfolio with sanctions
Days after sanctioning a Lebanese businessman and his network for funding the Hamas terror organization that rules the Gaza Strip, the U.S. Treasury Department announced similar measures on Tuesday, targeting several Jordanian nationals.
The Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets...
Historian claims founding father Alexander Hamilton had Jewish upbringing
A historian is claiming that Alexander Hamilton, the country’s first Treasury Secretary who was instrumental in the ratification of the Constitution and whose popularity has risen in recent years due to the musical “Hamilton,”...
Senate confirms Janet Yellen as US Treasury secretary
The U.S. Senate confirmed former Federal Reserve chairwoman Janet Yellen on Monday as the 78th U.S. Treasury secretary and the first female to lead the 231-year-old U.S. Treasury Department.
The final tally was 84-15.
The 74-year-old,...