Hizbullah...
Party of God, a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as
The Resistanceand purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory...
Secretary-General His Eminence Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah
The satrap of the Medes and the Persians in Leb..., his deputy Sheikh Naim Qassem
... the Grand Vizier of the Hezbullies...
and other bigwigs of the Iran-backed Lebanese group.
"Today, the seven member nations of the Terrorist Financing and Targeting Center (TFTC) took significant actions to disrupt an Iranian-backed terrorist group by designating the big shotship of Lebanese Hizbullah," the U.S. Treasury said in a statement.
"The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) in partnership with the Kingdom of Soddy Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...
, the co-chair of the Terrorist Financing Targeting Center (TFTC), and the other TFTC member states ‐ the Kingdom of Bahrain, the State of Kuwait, the Sultanate of Oman, the State of Qatar
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi..., and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) ‐ designated members of Hizbullah’s Shura Council, the primary decision-making body of Hizbullah," the statement added.
It identified the targeted officials as Nasrallah, Qassem, Mohammed Yazbek, Hussein al- Khalil and Ibrahim Amin al-Sayyed.
In addition, TFTC member states also designated "key Hizbullah-affiliated individuals and entities," identifying them as Talal Hamiyeh, Ali Youssef Sharara, Spectrum Group, Hassan Ibrahimi, Maher Trading, Hashem Safieddine, Adham Tabaja, al-Inmaa Group, and al-Inmaa Engineering and Contracting, all of whom were previously designated by the U.S.
"The TFTC again demonstrated its great value to international security by disrupting Iran and Hizbullah’s destabilizing influence in the region. By targeting Hizbullah’s Shura Council, our nations collectively rejected the false distinction between a so-called 'Political Wing' and Hizbullah’s global terrorist plotting," said U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Steven T. Mnuchin.
"Under 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," Mnuchin charged.
The U.S. Treasury noted that this is the second TFTC designation action since the center was announced on May 21, 2017.
It said that the TFTC is "a bold and historic effort to expand and strengthen the seven member states’ cooperation to counter the financing of terrorism," adding that the TFTC "facilitates coordinated disruptive actions, sharing of financial intelligence information, and member state capacity-building to target terrorist financing networks and related activities that pose national security threats to TFTC members."
The Treasury added that these designations "are in furtherance of the goal of addressing the totality of Iran's malign activities and regionally destabilizing behavior, including that of Hizbullah."
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