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US blacklists Iraqi firm accused of gunrunning for Iranian Guards
[IsraelTimes] South Wealth Resources and two of its agents added to State Department’s list of global terrorists, are also accused of helping move funds on behalf of IRGC.The Trump administration on Wednesday imposed sanctions on an Iraq-based affiliate of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, one more in a series of steps intended to pressure Tehran following President Donald Trump ...The tack in the backside of the Democratic Party... ’s decision last year to withdraw from the landmark nuclear deal with the Islamic Theocratic Republic. The Treasury Department said the penalties target the South Wealth Resources Company in Baghdad and two of its registered agents. It said the company and the two men are linked to the IRGC’s foreign wing, or Quds Force, and have trafficked hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of weapons to Shiite militias in Iraq. South Wealth Resources has also helped move millions of dollars to Iraq "for illicit financial activity benefiting" the IRGC and Iraqi militias it supports. The company and the two Iraqis, Makki Kazim Abd Al Hamid Al Asadi and Muhammed Husayn Salih al-Hasani, were also placed on the US State Department’s list of Specially Designated Global Terrorists. "The Iraqi financial sector and the broader international financial system must harden their defenses against the continued deceptive tactics emanating from Tehran in order to avoid complicity" in the IRGC’s "ongoing sanctions evasion schemes and other malign activities," Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said in a statement. The administration last month designed the IRGC as a foreign terrorist organization, which makes providing it with material support illegal under US law. The new actions freeze any assets that the targets may have in US jurisdictions and bar Americans from doing business with them. The announcement came as Japan’s prime minister visited Iran  ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneouslytaking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militiasto extend the regime's influence. The word Iranis a cognate form of Aryan,the abbreviation IRGCis a cognate form of Stürmabteilung (or SA),the term Supreme Guideis a cognate form of either Shahor Führeror maybe both, and they hate Jews Zionists. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... in an effort to lower tensions between Washington and Tehran. Tehran is locked in a bitter standoff with Washington after Trump withdrew from a landmark 2015 nuclear deal in May last year. Iran is threatening to resume enriching uranium closer to weapons-grade level on July 7 if Europe ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... an allies fail to offer new terms for the nuclear deal. While Trump says he wants to talk to Tehran, the US has piled on sanctions that have seen Iran’s currency, the rial, plummet along with Iran’s crucial oil exports. The US also has sent an aircraft carrier and B-52 bombers to the region, along with hundreds more troops to back up the tens of thousands already deployed across the Middle East. The US blames Iran for a mysterious attack on oil tankers off the coast of the United Arab Emirates, while Iranian-backed rebels in Yemen  ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic...continue to launch coordinated drone attacks on Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...
It claims Asadi, 61, and Hasani, 64, received "commission payments" for contracts with SWRC by Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis. Both Asadi and Hasani are Iraqi nationals, according to the US government. Muhandis is the deputy commander of the Hashd al-Shaabi and is known to be close to Iran's Quds Force commander Qasem Soleimani. The US designated the IRGC a foreign terrorist organization in April, and targeted their assets under US jurisdiction, including their use of the US banking system. SWRC, also called Manabea Tharwat al-Janoob General Trading Co., is based in the al-Jadriya district of eastern Baghdad. They are accused by the US of "facilitating the IRGC-QF’s weapons smuggling into Iraq". "SWRC has moved millions of dollars to Iraq for illicit financial activity benefiting the IRGC-QF and its Iraq-based militia groups", read the Treasury’s statement. Posted by: trailing wife 2019-06-13 |
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