{"id":784250,"date":"2021-09-17T15:14:12","date_gmt":"2021-09-17T19:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=784250"},"modified":"2021-09-17T15:14:14","modified_gmt":"2021-09-17T19:14:14","slug":"treasury-sanctions-chinese-lebanese-terror-financiers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/treasury-sanctions-chinese-lebanese-terror-financiers\/","title":{"rendered":"Treasury Sanctions Chinese, Lebanese Terror Financiers"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">12<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftreasury-sanctions-chinese-lebanese-terror-financiers%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=784250&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div readability=\"27.671497584541\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/national-security\/\">National Security<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">Terror backers boosted Hezbollah and Iran<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"736\" height=\"470\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/GettyImages-1208429280-736x470-1.jpg\" class=\"w-full lazyload blur-up wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 736px) 100vw, 736px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/s2.freebeacon.com\/up\/2021\/01\/GettyImages-1208429280-e1610045461300.jpg 736w, https:\/\/s2.freebeacon.com\/up\/2021\/01\/GettyImages-1208429280-300x192.jpg 300w, https:\/\/s2.freebeacon.com\/up\/2021\/01\/GettyImages-1208429280-768x491.jpg 768w, https:\/\/s2.freebeacon.com\/up\/2021\/01\/GettyImages-1208429280-1024x654.jpg 1024w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" \/><figcaption class=\"absolute text-white p-4 w-full text-right text-xs bottom-0 bg-black opacity-75\">\n\t\t\t\tThe U.S. Treasury Department \/ Getty Images\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/jack-beyrer\/\" title=\"Posts by Jack Beyrer\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Jack Beyrer<\/a> \u2022 September 17, 2021 3:00 pm<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div readability=\"57.438118811881\">\n<p><span>The Department of the Treasury sanctioned Chinese, Lebanese, and Kuwaiti nationals responsible for financing global terror networks that bolster Hezbollah and Iran.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The Treasury\u2019s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) on Friday identified individuals and companies that aided Hezbollah and the Iranian Quds Force by transferring millions in funds to the groups. The entities circumvented U.S. sanctions by facilitating the sale of Iranian oil to foreign buyers. Two Chinese nationals under the direction of one of the network\u2019s ringleaders, Morteza Minaye Hashemi, are accused of shipping American military products to Iran.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>OFAC director Andrea Gacki said Iran-backed Hezbollah and the Quds Force exploit vulnerabilities in international finance to fund terror.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;[Hezbollah] and the [Quds Force] continue to exploit the international financial system to finance acts of terrorism,&#8221; Gacki <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/home.treasury.gov\/news\/press-releases\/jy0362\"><span>said<\/span><\/a><span>. &#8220;The United States will not hesitate to take action to disrupt networks that provide financial support to [those groups.]&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The presence of Chinese nationals on the sanctions list is evidence of growing cooperation between Tehran and Beijing. The two regimes announced they will conduct a series of war drills alongside Russia, a move experts say shows their ambitions to challenge American military power, the <em>Washington <\/em><\/span><i><span>Free Beacon <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/national-security\/emboldened-iran-to-hold-war-drills-with-russia-and-china\/\"><span>reported<\/span><\/a><span> in August.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Security Terror backers boosted Hezbollah and Iran  The U.S. Treasury Department \/ Getty Images  Jack Beyrer \u2022 September 17, 2021 3:00 pm &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-784250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=784250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784250\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=784250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=784250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=784250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}