The U.S. Treasury Department has targeted six individuals and three
entities that it says are part of an Iranian-Russian network providing
millions of barrels of oil to the government of Syrian President Bashar
al-Assad and funding the militant groups Hamas and Hizballah.
The Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control said on November 20 that
Russia facilitated the delivery of Iranian oil to Syria, and that a
variety of mechanisms were used in an attempt to conceal the shipments
and payments.
"Today we are acting against a complex scheme Iran and Russia have used
to bolster the Assad regime and generate funds for Iranian malign
activity," Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said in a statement.
Leonid Slutsky, the chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee in the
lower house of Russia's parliament, the State Duma, called the latest
U.S. sanctions "absolutely illegal and unlawful."
Russia and Iran have given Assad crucial support throughout the war in
Syria, which began with a government crackdown on protesters in March
2011. The conflict has left more than 400,000 people dead, displaced
millions, and devastated many historical sites across the country.
Those added to the U.S. list of sanctioned entities and persons include
Syrian national Mohammad Amer Alchwiki and his Russia-based company,
Global Vision Group, Russia's state-owned company Promsyrioimport, and
its deputy director, Andrei Dogayev, who is a Russian citizen, the
Treasury said.
The other targets are Iran's Tadbir Kish Medical and Pharmaceutical
Company, Iranian nationals Rasoul Sajjad and Hossein Yaghoubi Miab,
Syrian national Hajji Abd al-Nasir, and Lebanon national Muhammad Qasim
al-Bazzal.
The move blocks any of their assets under U.S. jurisdiction and warns
non-U.S. institutions against conducting transactions with them.
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