(MENAFN) Iranian and Russian individuals and firms were slapped with U.S. sanctions aimed at stopping them from exporting oil to Syria's al-Assad government.
The international cell of which the U.S. sanctioned consists of five individuals and four companies in Iran and Russia.
The persons and companies carried out oil sales worth millions of barrels to Syria, stated the U.S. Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC).
The OFAC confirmed: "the Assad regime, in turn, facilitates the movement of hundreds of millions of U.S. dollars to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-Qods Force (IRGC-QF) for onward transfer to HAMAS and Hizballah."
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