For the first time the US Treasury has placed Hezbollah's elected lawmakers on its blacklist, which forbids US individuals and businesses – including leading international banks – from doing business with those sanctioned
In this November 12, 2010 file photo, Hezbollah fighters parade during the inauguration of a new cemetery for their fighters who died in fighting against Israel, in a southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon.
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said the US targeted three officials "who leverage their positions to facilitate Hezbollah and the Iranian regime's malign efforts to undermine Lebanese sovereignty.""We call on our allies and partners to designate Hezbollah in its entirety as a terrorist organisation."
However, Washington stopped short of imposing similar sanctions on Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, which Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said were forthcoming in late June. "It is time, we believe, for other nations around the world to recognise that there is no distinction between Hezbollah's political and military wing," the senior US administration official said.
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