US slaps 'largest sanctions' on Yemen over Gaza solidarity strikes
Iran Press TV
Friday, 12 September 2025 8:24 AM
The United States has announced its largest-ever sanctions action on Yemen, as the West Asian country continues strikes on Israeli targets amid Israel's nearly two-year-long genocidal war on the Gaza Strip.
In a statement released on Thursday, the US Treasury Department designated 32 individuals and entities, as well as four vessels, claiming that they are facilitating Yemen's "fundraising, smuggling, and attack operations".
Those sanctioned include companies, their owners, and other operatives located in Yemen, China, the United Arab Emirates, and the Marshall Islands, it added.
US Treasury's Under Secretary of Terrorism and Financial Intelligence John K. Hurley alleged that Yemen's Ansarullah resistance movement continues to "threaten US personnel and assets in the Red Sea, attack our allies in the region, and undermine international maritime security".
As a result of the new sanctions, all property and interests in property of the designated people in the United States are blocked and must be reported to the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC).
In addition, any entities that are owned 50 percent or more by those blacklisted are blocked.
The Yemeni Armed Forces began their campaign in support of Palestinians, attacking Israeli-linked ships as well as striking targets in the occupied territories in November 2023, a month after the occupying regime unleashed its genocide in Gaza.
They have vowed to remain by the Palestinian side and escalate their operations until Israel ends its brutal onslaught on Gaza and lifts its criminal blockade of the territory.
Meanwhile, Israel and the US have carried out rounds of deadly airstrikes across Yemen in flagrant violation of international law and the United Nations Charter.
Yemen's Health Ministry said on Thursday the number of casualties in Israel's Wednesday attacks rose to 46 people killed and 165 wounded.
Israel struck the Yemeni capital Sana'a and the northern province of al-Jawf, the latest in a series of attacks on the country.
The attack followed an August 30 strike on Sana'a that killed the prime minister of the government and several ministers, in the first such assault to target senior officials.
Earlier on Thursday, the Israeli military confirmed two launches from Yemen, a missile and a drone, operations Yemen claimed responsibility for later.
A Yemeni military spokesperson said the operation was also "within the framework of responding to the Israeli aggression against our country."
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