WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States on Tuesday announced new sanctions against "terrorist" individuals and entities, saying they belonged to Hamas, Iran's Revolutionary Guards, al Qaeda and the Islamic State.
On the eve of the 18th anniversary of the September 11 attacks, Treasury Secretary Stephen Menoshin said Washington had decided to impose financial sanctions on 15 people and entities, including those financed by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps' Quds Force, Hamas, as well as state and al-Qaeda.
"The aim of these sanctions is to ensure that those who call them terrorists are denied access to the global financial system," Minoshin told a joint news conference with US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.
Pompeo said that the new measure taken by the administration of President Donald Trump adds provisions that allow the departments of the State and the Treasury to target leaders and leaders of what he described as terrorist organizations, pointing out that this measure gives the authorities to target entities and persons involved in training what he called terrorists.
In turn, the US Treasury Department said in a statement that the sanctions target "a wide range of terrorists and their supporters," based on Trump's recent executive order to expand the scope of the resolution 13224, signed by President George W. Bush 12 days after the September 11 attacks. September, with the aim of reducing the financing outlets for "terrorist" actors.
Among the targeted figures mentioned in the ministry's statement are Iranian Revolutionary Guards official Mohammad Saeed Ezadi, Hamas leader Zaher Jabareen, and Ismail Tash, an official at Radeen Exchange.
The names of Suksek and Al-Haram Exchange in Syria and Al-Habo Jewelery Company in Gaziantep, Turkey were also mentioned.