US redesignates Hezbollah as terror group in 'service to Iranian regime'
Hezbollah, the Iran-backed terrorist group that has controlled southern Lebanon for decades, “operates with little to no regard for Lebanese sovereignty, the Lebanese people or the Lebanese state,” a U.S. State Department official said on Thursday, as the Trump administration again sanctioned Hezbollah “for service to the Iranian regime.”“The United States will not relent in targeting Iran’s financial support networks, including those enabling Hezbollah to threaten peace, undermine the sovereignty of the Lebanese state and endanger the security of our regional allies,” wrote Tommy Pigott, spokesman for the State Department.The official said that Hezbollah, which has long been sanctioned as a foreign terrorist organization, is being re-designated “an Iranian proxy, not a stand-alone operation as implied by the previous designation.”The action on Thursday “builds on years of U.S. designations that have repeatedly documented the operational, financial and logistical integration” between Hezbollah and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-Quds Force, which is…
The U.S. government has redesignated Hezbollah as a terrorist group, emphasizing its role as "an extension" of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Quds Force, rather than a Lebanese resistance movement. This action, announced by a U.S. State Department official on Thursday, builds on previous sanctions and formally recognizes Hezbollah's operational, financial, and logistical integration with the IRGC-QF. The State Department stated that Hezbollah "operates with little to no regard for Lebanese sovereignty, the Lebanese people or the Lebanese state." Concurrently, the U.S. Treasury Department sanctioned 10 individuals involved in a network facilitating hundreds of millions of dollars in illicit cash transfers between the Quds Force and Hezbollah. This redesignation supports a trilateral framework involving the U.S., Israel, and Lebanon aimed at restoring Lebanese sovereignty in the south, with Hezbollah expected to withdraw from designated areas.
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