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By Staff Writer<\/p>\n
The Terrorist Financing and Targeting Center (TFTC) took significant actions against an Iran-backed terrorist group the Lebanese Hezbollah on Wednesday by designating the senior leadership.<\/p>\n
According to a statement from the US Treasury Department, all seven member nations took this actions against the Shura Council, Hezbollah\u2019s top decision-making body.<\/p>\n
The statement read: \u201cThe US Department of the Treasury\u2019s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) in partnership with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the co-chair of the Terrorist Financing Targeting Center (TFTC), and the other TFTC member states \u2013 the Kingdom of Bahrain, the State of Kuwait, the Sultanate of Oman, the State of Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) \u2013 designated members of Hezbollah\u2019s Shura Council, the primary decision-making body of Hezbollah.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Shura Council is responsible for the terror group\u2019s religious, military, and strategic matters, while also taking control over the group\u2019s administrative authorities.<\/p>\n
The OFAC and its Gulf partners designated Hezbollah Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah.<\/p>\n
The OFAC and the TFTC nations also designated Naim Qasim, Muhammad Yazbak, Husayn Al- Khalil, and Ibrahim al-Amin al-Sayyid under Executive Order 13224, which targets terrorists and those who provide support to them.<\/p>\n
The TFTC Member States have also designated individuals and entities affiliated with Hezbollah, including Talal Hamiyah, Ali Youssef Charara, Spectrum Group, Hasan Ebrahimi, Maher Trading, Hashem Safieddine, Adham Tabaja, Al-Inmaa Group, and Al-Inmaa Engineering and Contracting. All of those people\/companies were previously designated by the US.<\/p>\n
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said: \u201cThe TFTC again demonstrated its great value to international security by disrupting Iran and Hezbollah\u2019s destabilizing influence in the region. By targeting Hezbollah\u2019s Shura Council, our nations collectively rejected the false distinction between a so-called \u2018Political Wing\u2019 and Hezbollah’s global terrorist plotting.\u201d<\/p>\n
He continued: \u201cUnder the dictates of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps-Qods Force (IRGC-QF), Secretary-General and head of the Shura Council Hassan Nasrallah is prolonging the human suffering in Syria, fueling the violence in Iraq and Yemen, putting the Lebanese state and the Lebanese people at risk, and destabilizing the entire region.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Treasury Department\u2019s statement said:<\/p>\n
\u201cThese designations follow President Trump\u2019s decision last week to cease US participation in the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, and to begin reimposing US nuclear-related sanctions on Iran. They are in furtherance of the goal of addressing the totality of Iran\u2019s malign activities and regionally destabilizing behaviour, including that of Hezbollah.\u201d<\/p>\n
This is the second designation action by TFTC since the centre was announced in May 2017.<\/p>\n
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