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2024-12-20 Home Front: WoT
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US slaps new sanctions on Iran, Houthi-related entities including individuals, companies, vessels
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[IsraelTimes] The United States has imposed sanctions on Iran and Houthi-related entities, according to the Treasury Department website which lists several individuals, companies and vessels.
The sanctions target three vessels involved in the trade of Iranian petroleum and petrochemicals, which generates billions of dollars for Iran’s leaders, supporting Tehran’s nuclear program, development of ballistic missiles, and financing of proxies including Hezbollah, Hamas and the Houthis, the Treasury says.
“The United States is committed to targeting Iran’s key revenue streams that fund its destabilizing activities,” Bradley Smith, acting under secretary for terrorism and financial intelligence, says in a release.
The sanctions come after the Israeli military carried out a series of intense airstrikes that shook Yemen’s rebel-held capital and a port city early this morning, in a preplanned operation that coincided with the Houthis firing a missile that hit a school in central Israel.
Workers walk through the rubble of a destroyed school building in Ramat Gan, near Tel Aviv, on December 19, 2024, after the campus was hit by a Houthi missile fired from Yemen. (Jack Guez/AFP)
Smith says Iran relies on a “shadowy network” of vessels, companies, and facilitators for those activities.
Iran says its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes.
The vessels targeted are the Djibouti-flagged crude oil tanker MS ENOLA, owned by Journey Investment company, the San Marino-flagged MS ANGIA, and the Panama-flagged MS MELENIA. The last two tankers are managed and operated by Liberia- and Greece-registered Rose Shipping Limited.
The sanctions block all property and interests in the United States of the designated parties, and US persons and entities dealing with them could be exposed to sanctions or enforcement actions including fines.
The Treasury says it also imposed sanctions on 12 individuals to pressure procurement and financing schemes by the Yemen Houthi group. Those include Hashem Ismail Ali Ahmad al-Madani, the head of the Houthi-aligned central bank in Sanaa, for their alleged roles in trafficking arms, laundering money, and shipping illicit Iranian oil for the benefit of the Houthis. 
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