Steven Mnuchin: Today @USTreasury targeted a key Iranian patronage network.
PRESS RELEASES
Treasury Targets Vast Supreme Leader Patronage Network and Iran’s Minister of Intelligence
November 18, 2020
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) took action today against a key patronage network for the Supreme Leader of Iran, the Islamic Revolution Mostazafan Foundation (Bonyad Mostazafan, or the Foundation), an immense conglomerate of some 160 holdings in key sectors of Iran’s economy, including finance, energy, construction, and mining. While Bonyad Mostazafan is ostensibly a charitable organization charged with providing benefits to the poor and oppressed, its holdings are expropriated from the Iranian people and are used by the Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei to enrich his office, reward his political allies, and persecute the regime’s enemies.
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https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/sm1185
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