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- 2 designationsOFAC Targets Iran's Gulf Banking Lifeline; Two New DesignationsOn 28 August 2026, under Operation Economic Outcast, OFAC added two parties to the SDN List: Reza Mohammad Taeedi, the general manager of Bank Melli's Dubai branch, and Kameng Trading Limited, a Hong Kong front company that laundered funds for a sanctioned Iranian exchange house. Treasury separately proposed a Section 311 special measure cutting Banque Misr UAE off from US correspondent banking. Two designations, no removals. OFAC designated Reza Mohammad Taeedi, an Iranian national who serves as general manager of Bank Melli Iran's Dubai branch, as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist under Executive Order 13224, as amended, for acting for or on behalf of Bank Melli. It also designated Kameng Trading Limited, a Hong Kong-registered front company, under Executive Order 13902 for operating in the financial sector of the Iranian economy after it helped the sanctioned Pedram Pirouzan Exchange House, also known as Opal Exchange, launder money for Iran. Both parties are now blocked: all property and interests in property in the United States or in the possession or control of US persons are frozen, and secondary sanctions risk applies to those who transact with them.
- 1 amendedThe UN Refreshes a Senior Taliban Listing; No New Designations TodayOn 27 August 2026 the United Nations 1988 (Taliban) Sanctions Committee amended one entry on its list, updating the identification particulars of Abdul Salam Hanafi, a former deputy minister and senior figure of the Taliban regime. No party was added or removed and his listing stands. Separately, OFAC eased its Venezuela licensing regime. The one list action of the day is an amendment, not a new designation. The Committee established pursuant to resolution 1988 (2011) amended the entry for Abdul Salam Hanafi Ali Mardan Qul, reference TAi.027, a Deputy Minister of Education under the former Taliban regime who was first listed on 23 February 2001. The amendment updates his identification particulars: the entry now records three passports, including an Afghan passport issued in Kabul in 2023 and a passport issued in Dubai in 2020, together with a good-quality alias rendered in original script. He remains subject to the assets freeze, travel ban and arms embargo under paragraph 1 of Security Council resolution 2816 (2026).
- 5 designationsOFAC Names Five Global Terrorists, and a Digital Host is One of ThemOn 26 August 2026 the United States Treasury added three entities and two individuals to the Specially Designated Nationals list as Global Terrorists, in an action aimed at violent far-left networks and the digital infrastructure that keeps them running. An Italian hosting provider, a transnational movement, a United Kingdom protest group and two of the movement's leaders are now blocked property. The Office of Foreign Assets Control designated Autistici Inventati, an Italy-based provider of encrypted communications and hosting; Masar Badil, also known as the Palestinian Alternative Revolutionary Path Movement; and Palestine Action, a group established in the United Kingdom. Alongside them it designated Zaid Abdulnasser, based in Germany, and Rawa Alsagheer, based in Brazil, both named as leaders of Masar Badil. Each party is designated under Executive Order 13224, as amended by Executive Order 13886, and carries the Specially Designated Global Terrorist tag.
- 78 designations1 removals11 amendedSyria's Terrorism Designation Lifted as OFAC Adds Seventy-Eight Iran-Linked PartiesOn 24 August OFAC published one notice doing two things. It removed the al-Nusrah Front / Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham entry from the SDN List after the State Department rescinded Syria's designation as a State Sponsor of Terrorism, and revoked Syria General License 25. In the same notice it added twenty-four individuals, forty-eight entities and six vessels to the SDN List across six Iran programmes, amended eleven existing entries, and reworked several Iran general licences. The UN 1267 list timestamp moved today, but its last content change was 18 August, already reported, so it is excluded. The Iran tranche adds seventy-eight parties to the Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons List: twenty-four individuals, forty-eight entities and six vessels. They fall across six programmes. Nineteen entities, two individuals and five vessels sit under Executive Order 13902 for shipping and selling Iranian oil, the shadow-fleet block. Eleven entities, six individuals and one vessel sit under Executive Order 13846 for petrochemicals and procurement. Sixteen entities and six individuals sit under the counter-proliferation programme [NPWMD] [IFSR]. Two entities and two individuals sit under the IRGC-Qods Force terrorism programme [SDGT] [IFSR].
- 47 designations2 amendedForty-Seven New OFAC Designations Across Three ProgrammesBetween yesterday's capture and today, OFAC added forty-seven parties to the SDN List in a single action: twenty-one individuals, sixteen companies and ten Ecuadorian fishing vessels, spread across the counter terrorism, counter narcotics and Cuba programmes. Two existing entries were amended, one of them Hizballah itself. The United Kingdom moved twenty-one ISIL and Al-Qaida listings on the same day, but its own notice says it is transposing the Council's action of 18 August, which this briefing delivered on 19 August. On 20 August 2026 OFAC published one notice carrying four separate actions. Forty-seven parties were added to the Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons List: twenty-one individuals, sixteen entities and ten vessels. Ten of the individuals sit under the counter terrorism programme, seven of them linked to Hizballah and three to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-Qods Force. Eight individuals, seven companies and all ten vessels sit under the counter narcotics programme and form a single Ecuadorian maritime network. Three individuals and nine entities sit under the Cuba programme, nine of the twelve being Cuban state bodies or state-owned enterprises.