The United States has sanctioned support networks for Iran-backed groups in Iraq and Lebanon

🔸The U.S. Treasury Department said on Thursday, 19 Shahrivar, it has announced sanctions against a set of individuals and companies accused of providing financial, weapons, and logistical support to Kata’ib Hezbollah in Iraq and Hezbollah Lebanon, two groups backed by the Islamic Republic. The move was carried out within the framework of Washington’s new operation known as “Economic Exclusion” against financial networks linked to Iran.

🔸The Treasury Department says Kata’ib Hezbollah receives training, weapons, financial resources, intelligence, and logistical support from the IRGC’s Quds Force. Four commanders and members of this group have also been placed under the new round of sanctions.

🔸A number of individuals and companies based in Iraq and the United Arab Emirates were also sanctioned for involvement in supplying military equipment, transferring money, and evading sanctions for networks linked to the Islamic Republic. According to the Treasury Department, a money exchange business based in Dubai transferred millions of dollars from Iraq to Iran via the United Arab Emirates.

🔸The new sanctions also include a network of money exchange businesses and financial intermediaries in Lebanon which, according to Washington, played a role in transferring financial resources from the IRGC’s Quds Force to Hezbollah. The Treasury Department says two members of this network transferred hundreds of millions of dollars from the Quds Force to Hezbollah between May and September 2025; resources that were used to buy weapons, produce equipment, and pay the salaries of members of this group.

🔸At the same time, the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) of the U.S. Treasury Department has tightened its policy for issuing licenses related to Iran and announced that, except for limited cases, from now on it will reject requests for such licenses based on its review.