A new list of US sanctions on 20 Iranian companies and institutions

by **Rocky** Thu 18 Oct 2018, 5:48 am

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A new list of US sanctions on 20 Iranian companies and institutions

by Rocky Thu 18 Oct 2018, 5:48 am

A new list of US sanctions on 20 Iranian companies and institutions and five major banks

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The US Treasury Department, the Foreign Assets Management Office, has added a new list of economic sanctions to about 20 Iranian companies and institutions and five major banks that form a financing network for the Basij forces of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards.

According to the US Treasury Department, one of the main tasks of the Basij forces, which are linked to the structure of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, includes recruiting children from Iran , Yemen, Afghanistan and Pakistan with ages ranging from 12 to 14 years and deploying them on the battlefields In the Middle East.

US sanctions have already targeted [url=https://www.thebaghdadpost.com/ar/Story/t/674/%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AD%D8%B1%D8%B3 %D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AB%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%8A]the Revolutionary Guards[/url]Iranian economic and legal sanctions because of the ballistic program of Tehran and accused of human rights violations, but the economic sanctions imposed yesterday on the Basij, citing the exploitation of Iran's oil resources and wealth in financing and sponsoring terrorism, which is a threat to the region and the world, as well as the approach of recruiting children and sent to The war in Syria starting in 2015.

The Treasury report indicated that the Basij forces recruited the children of Afghan immigrants aged 14 years, to engage with the "Fatimids", which operates in Syria under the command of the Republican Guard and the Quds Force, Two Tannen to join the "Zinbion" Corps, which also fought in Syria under the command of the Republican Guard.

The report points out that [url=https://www.thebaghdadpost.com/ar/Story/t/674/%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AD%D8%B1%D8%B3 %D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AB%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%8A]the Revolutionary Guards[/url]The Iranian (called Persian Basdaran) reaches 120 thousand, with other reports raising the number to 350,000, and the formation of [url=https://www.thebaghdadpost.com/ar/Story/t/674/%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AD%D8%B1%D8%B3 %D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AB%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%8A]the Revolutionary Guard[/url] in May 1979 with the advent of Khomeini.

In 2007, Basij forces were attached to the Revolutionary Guard, which has branches in all Iranian provinces and cities, and has expanded significantly in child recruitment, the report said.

The report notes that [url=https://www.thebaghdadpost.com/ar/Story/t/674/%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AD%D8%B1%D8%B3 %D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AB%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%8A]the IRGC is[/url] involved in multi-billion dollar economic projects in the fields of oil, gas and infrastructure, including large financial and investment institutions covering a wide spectrum of productive and service activities, including construction, roads and communications.

The measure, announced by the US Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control, includes sanctions on its financial networks, freezing assets linked to Iran's Revolutionary Guards and blocking its access to the US banking system.

The list of US sanctions on the Republican Guard and the Basij includes some 25 banks, companies and financial, industrial and service institutions, headed by the Basij Cooperative Foundation, which is considered a front for covering its control of a network of commercial interests, especially in the fields of exchange, cars and mining.

The list of sanctions, Bank"Munt", "Sina", "Mehr Economy Bank", "Grant Investment" and "Nectar" investment company, such as "Andizha Mahoran" investment, and the zinc production company, the tractor industry, and "Zanjan" , "Qeshm" for zinc and "Bahman" group, Zinc Industries Development Company, "Mubarka" for steel, "Kalismin" for the master, as well as "Technotar" engineering.

The US treasury statement indicates that these companies, which cover the dominance of the Basij on the Iranian economy, have branches and activities in many countries of the world, and that sanctions will be imposed on the people and international institutions dealing with these Iranian companies.

It is noteworthy that since last May to announce on the fifth of November next to announce the re-imposition of a second set of sanctions, including Iranian oil and gas.

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