{"id":77414,"date":"2024-03-12T10:56:26","date_gmt":"2024-03-12T15:56:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/equitynewsreport.com\/us-targets-iran-backed-group-in-bahrain-with-sanctions-on-affiliates-treasury-says\/"},"modified":"2024-03-12T10:56:26","modified_gmt":"2024-03-12T15:56:26","slug":"us-targets-iran-backed-group-in-bahrain-with-sanctions-on-affiliates-treasury-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/equitynewsreport.com\/h\/us-targets-iran-backed-group-in-bahrain-with-sanctions-on-affiliates-treasury-says\/","title":{"rendered":"US targets Iran-backed group in Bahrain with sanctions on affiliates, Treasury says"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"63\">\n<div id=\"imgCarousel\" class=\"imgCarousel\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"US targets Iran-backed group in Bahrain with sanctions on affiliates, Treasury says\" id=\"carouselImage\" src=\"https:\/\/i-invdn-com.investing.com\/trkd-images\/LYNXNPEK2B0L7_L.jpg\"><br \/>\n<span class=\"text\">\u00a9 Reuters. FILE PHOTO: A bronze seal for the Department of the Treasury is shown at the U.S. Treasury building in Washington, U.S., January 20, 2023. REUTERS\/Kevin Lamarque\/File Photo<\/span><br \/>\n<i class=\"imgGrad\"><\/i>\n<\/div>\n<p>WASHINGTON (Reuters) &#8211; The United States on Tuesday imposed sanctions on four individuals in Iran for aiding the Bahrain-based, U.S.-designated terrorist group al-Ashtar Brigades, the Treasury Department said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>CONTEXT<\/p>\n<p>The sanctions were imposed in coordination with Bahrain&#8217;s government and allege that the targeted individuals &#8220;materially assisted, sponsored, or provided financial, material, or technological support for, or goods or services to or in support of&#8221; al-Ashtar Brigades. <\/p>\n<p>KEY QUOTES<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. action &#8220;underscores our collective commitment to disrupting Iran&#8217;s destabilizing forces and threats, particularly those which threaten our partners in the region and around the world,&#8221; Brian Nelson, U.S. under secretary of the Treasury for terrorism and financial intelligence, said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>WHY IT MATTERS<\/p>\n<p>The United States has been taking action against Iran-backed groups in the Middle East to reduce Tehran&#8217;s influence in the region and to isolate its affiliates. It designated al-Ashtar Brigades a foreign terrorist organization in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>In recent weeks, Washington and Tehran have also been at odds over the conflict in Gaza and its implications in the region with Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen disrupting commercial shipping in the Red Sea and the U.S. carrying out strikes against them. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a9 Reuters. FILE PHOTO: A bronze seal for the Department of the Treasury is shown at the U.S. Treasury building in Washington, U.S., January 20, 2023. REUTERS\/Kevin Lamarque\/File Photo WASHINGTON (Reuters) &#8211; The United States on Tuesday imposed sanctions on four individuals in Iran for aiding the Bahrain-based, U.S.-designated terrorist group al-Ashtar Brigades, the Treasury Department said in a statement. CONTEXT The sanctions were imposed in coordination with Bahrain&#8217;s government and allege that the targeted individuals &#8220;materially assisted, sponsored, or provided financial, material, or technological support for, or goods or services to or in support of&#8221; al-Ashtar Brigades. KEY QUOTES [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":77415,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/equitynewsreport.com\/h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77414"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/equitynewsreport.com\/h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/equitynewsreport.com\/h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/equitynewsreport.com\/h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/equitynewsreport.com\/h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/equitynewsreport.com\/h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77414\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/equitynewsreport.com\/h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/equitynewsreport.com\/h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/equitynewsreport.com\/h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/equitynewsreport.com\/h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}