{"id":24058,"date":"2026-08-21T05:35:35","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T05:35:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/?p=24058"},"modified":"2026-08-21T05:35:37","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T05:35:37","slug":"washington-imposes-new-sanctions-on-hezbollah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/2026\/08\/21\/washington-imposes-new-sanctions-on-hezbollah\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington imposes new sanctions on Hezbollah"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>KABUL: The United States on Thursday announced new sanctions targeting Hezbollah in Lebanon, accusing the Iran-backed group of acting in support of the Iranian government and maintaining ties with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a statement, the U.S. Treasury Department said the group has been designated as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist (SDGT) for providing services to the Iranian government and following the directives of the IRGC\u2019s Quds Force.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A U.S. official said the designation was intended to underscore Washington\u2019s view that Hezbollah operates on behalf of the Iranian government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The United States also sanctioned 10 individuals, accusing them of illegally transferring cash to Hezbollah.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hezbollah has been designated by the United States as a Foreign Terrorist Organization since 1997 and as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist since 2001.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL: The United States on Thursday announced new sanctions targeting Hezbollah in Lebanon, accusing the Iran-backed group of acting in support of the Iranian government and maintaining ties with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). In a statement, the U.S. Treasury Department said the group has been designated as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist (SDGT) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":24059,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[73],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24058"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24058"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24060,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24058\/revisions\/24060"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}