The U.S. Treasury imposes sanctions on a financial network linked to Hezbollah and warns of a threat to the Lebanese financial system

The U.S. Treasury Department announced today, Thursday, the imposition of new sanctions on individuals who facilitated the transfer of tens of millions of dollars from Iran to Hezbollah during the year 2025, using exchange companies and taking advantage of the cash nature of the Lebanese economy.

According to the official statement, this money is used to support the party's paramilitary forces, rebuild its infrastructure, and resist the Lebanese government's efforts to assert its sovereignty over all Lebanese territory.

The department also confirmed that Hezbollah's exploitation of exchange companies and the cash economy poses a direct threat to the integrity of the Lebanese financial system, as it merges terrorist financing with legitimate trade, deepening the economic crisis in the country.

John K. Hurley, the Treasury's Under Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence, stated that Lebanon has the opportunity to be a free and safe country, but this can only be achieved through the complete disarmament of Hezbollah and severing its ties to Iranian financing.

These sanctions come as part of Washington's efforts to pursue illegal financing networks linked to the party, at a time when international pressure on Lebanon is increasing to regulate the financial sector and prevent its use in money laundering and terrorist financing.