US Sanctions Alleged Iran-linked Network After Strait Of Hormuz Attacks
WASHINGTON/HAMILTON, (Canada), July 11(Bernama-Anadolu) -- The US Treasury Department issued new Iran-related sanctions on Friday amid renewed hostilities following Iranian attacks on three commercial vessels in the Strait of Hormuz, Anadolu Ajansi reported.
The Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) said it designated Ali Ansari, whom it linked to Iran’s Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, along with several so-called "shadow exchange houses" operating out of Tehran and Shiraz.
Among those added to the Specially Designated Nationals List were the Mohammad Darbani and Partners Exchange, the Mohsen Khandan and Partners Exchange and the Lavasani and Partners Exchange, all general partnership companies OFAC said were based in Iran.
The agency also designated Smart Global Limited, a holding company registered in the Caribbean island nation of Saint Kitts and Nevis, describing it as linked to Ansari.
"Iran has so far kept its word, unlike the so-called U.S. Treasury Secretary who is violating Para 9 of the MoU," Iranian Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi wrote on US social media platform X.
"That violation follows other violations and missteps by the United States," he said. "There can only be mutual compliance."
-- BERNAMA-ANADOLU
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