America sanctioned 13 real and legal personalities related to Yemen

According to the report of Fars News Agency International Group, the Foreign Assets Control Office of the US Treasury announced on Thursday the imposition of new sanctions against 13 individuals and entities related to Yemen.

In this statement, the US Department of Treasury has targeted “the network involved in financing the regional militancy of the Houthis” as a target for sanctions.

The forces of the Yemeni National Army have carried out several military operations against Israeli ships in the Red Sea and Makran Sea in support of the Palestinian resistance since the Israeli attacks against Gaza.

“Mohammed Al-Bakhiti”, a member of the political office of the Ansarullah Movement, said yesterday (Wednesday) that the military operation of the Yemeni National Army forces is only against Israeli ships and will continue until the end of the aggression against Gaza. .

He said: “Our military operations in the Red Sea and the Makran Sea only target Israeli ships.” Our military operations against the occupying regime will continue and expand until the regime’s crimes against the Palestinians stop. from the sale and transfer of Iranian goods” to the Houthis in Yemen (Ansarullah).

Brian E. Nelson, US Treasury’s Undersecretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence, said in a statement: “The Houthis continue to receive financial support from Iran, and the result is not surprising: unprovoked attacks on infrastructure.” city ​​and commercial ships, disruption of maritime security and threat to international trade.”

The authorities of the Islamic Republic of Iran have previously denied involvement in the attacks of Yemeni army forces on Israeli ships in the Red Sea. Nasser Kanani, the spokesman of Iran’s Foreign Ministry yesterday (Wednesday) for the umpteenth time rejected the attempts of Western authorities to connect the attacks of the resistance group to Iran. “Jake Sullivan” on the evening of Monday, December 13, linked the targeting of two ships belonging to the Zionist regime by Yemen’s Ansarullah to Iran and said, “We believe that Iran is ultimately responsible for it.” He also stated that the United States is consulting with its allies to find an appropriate response to Yemen’s attacks against Zionist ships. The continuation of unconditional support to the apartheid regime of Israel and the continuous and extensive sending of bombs and deadly weapons to this regime is the main responsibility for the ongoing war crimes of the regime in Gaza and the West Bank against the Palestinians and the ultimate responsibility for the tension in the region.

This senior Iranian diplomat emphasized once again that the Islamic Republic of Iran does not have a proxy force in the region and the resistance groups in the countries of the region are completely independent and based on their discretion and decision in relation to the security of their countries or support The oppressed people of Palestine act.

According to the statement of the treasury, the names of 6 people and 7 companies have been included in the US sanctions list. The people who have been sanctioned are citizens of Yemen, Lebanon, Turkey and Russia.

Companies that have been blacklisted in the US are based in the United Arab Emirates, Yemen, England, Lebanon, Russia and Turkey.

Yesterday, the Reuters news agency, citing two informed sources, claimed that Saudi Arabia demanded that the United States show restraint in any possible response to the actions of Yemen’s Houthis (Ansarullah) against ships in The Red Sea is red.

Reporting this claim, Reuters news agency, citing unnamed sources, wrote that Riyadh seeks to prevent the spread of conflicts between Hamas and Israel to other parts of the region.

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Politico reported last night, quoting knowledgeable sources in the Biden administration, that Washington is not looking for a conflict with Yemen.

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