Treasury Economic Fury sanctions hit 14 targets across Iran, Türkiye, UAE for missile, UAV, and Mahan Air procurement
OFAC on April 21 designated 14 individuals, entities, and aircraft across Iran, Türkiye, and the UAE for procuring or transporting weapons components for the Islamic Republic, the Treasury Department announced. Targets include three Tehran-based facilitators of
Corroborated across three outlets, this package marks the first OFAC tranche to formally target both the Mahan Air resupply spine and the cotton-linters/nitrocellulose pipeline feeding solid-rocket-motor production, and Treasury's accompanying narrative explicitly elevates Shahed-series UAV reconstitution as the new principal threat vector as US strikes deplete ballistic inventories. The EU's same-day Hormuz-navigation sanctions tier signals Washington is using the Pakistan-mediated diplomatic pause to consolidate Western secondary-sanctions architecture rather than relax pressure; the ceasefire extension and the sanctions intensification are running simultaneously, not in tension. Mahan has rebuilt around US designations before, and PRC-aligned procurement workarounds via Hong Kong front companies almost certainly materialize within 60 days.
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- Economic Fury Targets Iranian Missile and UAV Procurement Networks -
US Treasury - US issues more Iran sanctions on eve of possible talks in Pakistan -
Al Jazeera - US imposes new sanctions against suppliers of weapons to Iran -
Times of Israel - US sanctions 14 for helping Iran obtain weapons supplies -
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