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🇺🇸❌🇮🇷🇱🇧 — US Department of Treasury designates 10 individuals in a Hizballah cash smuggling network moving up to hundreds of millions of dollars via commercial flights between Lebanon, Türkiye, UAE, and Iran. Hizballah is also re-designated for acting under IRGC-QF direction.

Today, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) is designating 10 individuals that are part of a network responsible for transferring cash to Hizballah.

The network utilizes couriers travelling on commercial airline flights between Lebanon, Turkiye, the UAE, and Iran to move up to hundreds of millions of dollars between jurisdictions, providing an avenue outside the formal financial system for Hizballah to obtain foreign currency and evade sanctions.

OFAC is also re-designating Hizballah for service to the Iranian regime under the command of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-Qods Force (IRGC-QF).

Today’s action is being taken pursuant to the United States’ counterterrorism authority, Executive Order (E.O.) 13224, as amended.

The U.S. Department of State designated Hizballah as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist (SDGT) pursuant to E.O. 13224 on October 31, 2001, for having committed, or posing a significant risk of committing, acts of terrorism that threaten the security of U.S. nationals or the national security, foreign policy, or economy of the United States.

Previously, the U.S. Department of State had designated Hizballah as a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) pursuant to section 219 of the Immigration and Nationality Act on October 8, 1997. OFAC designated the IRGC-QF as an SDGT pursuant to E.O. 13224 on October 25, 2007, for providing material support to multiple terrorist organizations, including Hizballah. The U.S. Department of State designated the IRGC-QF as an FTO pursuant to section 219 of the Immigration and Nationality Act on April 8, 2019.

𝐈𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐝𝐮𝐚𝐥𝐬

- 𝐘𝐮𝐧𝐮𝐬 𝐀𝐥𝐩𝐞𝐫 𝐘𝐢𝐥𝐦𝐚𝐳 – Turkish businessman; manages courier network; abuses Türkiye-based exchange houses as fronts; provided front companies and bank accounts for IRGC-QF-linked transfers.
- 𝐇𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐥 𝐈𝐛𝐫𝐚𝐡𝐢𝐦 𝐊𝐚𝐜𝐦𝐚𝐳 – Courier; collects cash from exchange houses.
- 𝐎𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐃𝐞𝐝𝐞 – Courier; collects cash from exchange houses.
- 𝐕𝐚𝐬𝐟𝐢 𝐀𝐤𝐲𝐮𝐳 – Coordinates courier logistics; also acts as courier.
- 𝐌𝐞𝐡𝐦𝐞𝐭 𝐀𝐤𝐲𝐮𝐳 – Courier; covertly carried cash to Lebanon on commercial flights.
- 𝐌𝐞𝐡𝐦𝐞𝐭 𝐀𝐜𝐮𝐫 – Courier; covertly carried cash to Lebanon on commercial flights.
- 𝐅𝐞𝐲𝐲𝐚𝐝 𝐊𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐬𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐡 – Courier; covertly carried cash to Lebanon on commercial flights.
- 𝐌𝐚𝐬𝐨𝐮𝐝 𝐌𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐚𝐟𝐚𝐫 – Courier; covertly carried cash to Lebanon on commercial flights.
- 𝐆𝐮𝐥𝐚𝐲 𝐊𝐚𝐲𝐚 𝐒𝐚𝐯𝐜𝐢 – Courier; covertly carried cash to Lebanon on commercial flights.
- 𝐄𝐦𝐫𝐚𝐡 𝐀𝐲𝐚𝐳 – Courier; covertly carried cash to Lebanon on commercial flights.

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- 𝐇𝐢𝐳𝐛𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐡 – Re-designated pursuant to E.O. 13224 for being owned, controlled, or directed by, or acting for or on behalf of, the IRGC-QF.

𝐊𝐞𝐲 𝐓𝐞𝐜𝐡𝐧𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐃𝐞𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐥𝐬

- Network formerly associated with deceased IRGC-QF finance official Behnam Shahriyari.
- All designations under E.O. 13224, as amended.
- No digital currency addresses, license wind-down periods, or new FAQs specified in this action.

 

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🇨🇭🇨🇳 Switzerland and China conclude talks to update their free trade agreement, making 99.8% of current Swiss exports to China duty-free and expanding market access for Swiss investors.

 

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🇺🇸❌🇮🇷 — US Vice President JD Vance on Iran:

We've been able to get a lot of oil and gas out of the Strait of Hormuz through the great work of our military and some of our folks on the commercial side. We gotta get more out, but that's been a very successful thing because that is the Iranian leverage point."​

 

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🇺🇸❌🇮🇷 — US Vice-President JD Vance on Iran:

"We're kind of now in a new phase where the most effective tool that we have is the economic pressure... We're going to keep that going because we think that's the best way to ultimately accomplish the final objective."​

 

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🇷🇸 🇲🇪 It has been revealed that Milonjko Spajic, the Prime Minister of Montenegro, was a reserve officer in the Serbian Army.

 

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🇺🇸❌🌹🛠 — POTUS on the communists that have taken over the Democrat Party:

"In 1,000 years, that stuff has never worked, and it's not going to work now. They're not even smart people. You watch some of them — half of them can't even speak properly."​

 

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🇺🇸🚫🇨🇺 — U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced new sanctions against Cuba, some of them targeting what he described as a network that radicalizes people in the United States.

“For a long time, the Cuban regime has sponsored a vast subversive network in the United States with the goal of identifying, cultivating, and radicalizing subversives, operating largely under the guise of educational or cultural exchange. The [Donald] Trump administration will not stand idly by while a hostile foreign power seeks to exploit our freedoms — freedoms its own people do not enjoy — by deceiving and corrupting American citizens with lies, espionage tactics, and other unlawful actions, as part of the regime's raison d’être of exporting Marxism, racial resentment, and communist violence throughout the world.”

🤡 The U.S. Secretary of State cited the recent centennial of the birth of the late dictator Fidel Castro, for which Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva sent a message praising the Castro regime, as a pretext “to revitalize this subversive network, [with the dictatorship] bringing a new brigade of international sympathizers to Havana to establish contacts with regime officials.”

➡️ Three leaders of the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples (Icap), which had previously been targeted by U.S. measures, were sanctioned: the organization's president, Fernando González Llort, who served 15 years in prison in the United States for his role in the Wasp Network espionage network (which operated in Florida during the 1990s) and who, according to Rubio, “continued his efforts to destabilize the United States after returning to Cuba through his involvement with Icap”; Noemi Ramona Rabaza Fernandez, the group's first vice president; and Leima Martinez Freire, Icap's director for North America.

💥 The sanctions, which include the blocking of assets in the United States and a ban on financial and commercial transactions with U.S. citizens and companies, also cover nine entities, including Cuba's Ministry of Construction and state-owned mining companies, which “sustain the regime's repressive apparatus through control of strategic economic sectors.”

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🇦🇷🐍❌🛠 — Argentine President Milei's statement at the Council of the Americas:

"If we want to be great, we have to be tough, and those corrupt leftist parasites have to go bankrupt!"​

 

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#BREAKING | 🇵🇦 — Panama Canal Authority imposing new transit caps and tighter draft limits as El Niño-driven drought reduces water levels in Gatun Lake.

Daily vessel transits will be limited to 34 starting September 4 and 32 from September 15 (from a recent average of about 35). Neopanamax slots will be held at nine per day, with Panamax capacity cut further in the second phase.

Additional draft reductions will force large ships to carry less cargo so they sit higher in the water. Rainfall from May–August was 34% below the historical average and inflows 44% below normal.

Carriers have responded with Panama Canal surcharges ranging from a few hundred dollars up to $1,000 per 40-foot container. The canal handles roughly 5% of global maritime trade.

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🇺🇸🇦🇫🌹✔️ — URGENT: Radical leftist, Afghan refugee, Aisha Wahab has won the special election for California’s 14th Congressional District, defeating fellow Democrat Melissa Hernandez and becoming the first Afghan American elected to the U.S. Congress.

 

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🇮🇷❌🇺🇸 — Iran is systematically preparing to damage Trump's presidency through economic warfare, aimed at making him lose the November midterms, per a senior Iranian official in Tehran familiar with the matter.

➡️ The plans include strikes on Gulf oil terminals to surge global energy prices by destroying the remaining Hormuz bypasses (Saudi Yanbu and Emirati Fujairah, total ~5.5M barrels a day), and targeting the support network behind the US-backed "shadow fleet" in the Strait to fully shut it down to zero from the current ~5M barrels a day.

➡️ The official says the direct operational chain is: Crude → pump prices (2-4 week lag) → CPI → voter mood, and the economy being voters' top issue with under 3 months to go until the midterms.

➡️ Majid Shakeri, the advisor to Iran's Parliament Speaker Ghalibaf, adds "Iran must raise the tension level, focused on oil, before the midterms, and fortunately America handed over the necessary pretext. Obviously, Iran will not wait for America's economic attack in a preemptive defense."

 

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🇮🇳 At least 8 people in Western India are dead after they tried to drink fake alcohol. 40+ are hospitalized.

 

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🇷🇺🤝🇷🇸❌🇽🇰 — Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said Serbs in Kosovo* are oppressed before the eyes of NATO, the EU and UN and forcibly driven from their homes.

She called for comprehensive international measures to prevent a humanitarian catastrophe in Kosovo*.

 

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🇦🇫❌🇦🇫 — Afghanistan Republican Rebels claim new attack against the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan's positions:

3 Taliban Killed and Wounded in Banuy Andarab - Baghlan

Fighters of the Freedom Front of Afghanistan last night, on 29 Asad 1405 solar calendar, attacked Taliban terrorist patrol (gazma) individuals in the village of Mirwa, Banuy district - Andarab province, Baghlan

As a result of this attack, 2 Taliban terrorists were killed and 1 other Taliban was injured.

In this attack, no harm was done to the guerrillas of the Freedom Front.

 

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🇺🇦❌🇷🇺 — ✍️ ARKHANGEL SPETSNAZA:

"Attack on Perm

✍️ After several days with over 1000 drones in each attack, the Ukrainian side used a smaller number of drones tonight.

According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, air defense units shot down and destroyed at least 325 drones. If we include the daytime figures, the total number is 389.

▪️ The geography of the attacks remains extensive. The Ukrainian Armed Forces are sending groups of drones in different directions to strain air defense units.

One group was detected overnight over the Republic of Udmurtia and the Perm Region (likely the ones that were sent during the day).

❗️ Ukrainian sources are now circulating videos of an attack on the Perm Oil Refinery, which is over 1600 km away.

Attacks on the oil and gas sector have once again become a priority for the enemy, which has led to a new wave of fuel shortages in Russia."

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