{"id":9852,"date":"2014-07-12T19:29:47","date_gmt":"2014-07-12T19:29:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/?p=9852"},"modified":"2014-07-12T19:29:47","modified_gmt":"2014-07-12T19:29:47","slug":"us-blacklists-companies-accused-of-hezbollah-ties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/us-blacklists-companies-accused-of-hezbollah-ties\/","title":{"rendered":"US blacklists companies accused of Hezbollah ties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The United States moved Thursday to blacklist a group of companies it claimed covertly helped Lebanon&#8217;s powerful Hezbollah movement acquire components for surveillance drones.<\/p>\n<p>The US Treasury placed sanctions on Beirut-based Stars Group Holding, which it said purchased electronics and other technology via offices in China and Dubai to support Hezbollah&#8217;s military operations.<\/p>\n<p>That included the development of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) that the Treasury claimed were used against rebels in Syria and for surveillance of Israeli sites.<\/p>\n<p>The material bought by Stars Group included engines, communications, electronics, and navigation equipment acquired from suppliers in the United States, Canada, Europe and Asia.<\/p>\n<p>It named for sanctions the company, its subsidiaries, its owner, executives Kamel Amhaz and Issam Amhaz, and two Stars Group managers, Ayman Ibrahim and Ali Zeaiter.<\/p>\n<p>The sanctions place a freeze on any of their assets under US jurisdiction and ban Americans from any business with them.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/english.al-akhbar.com\/content\/us-blacklists-companies-accused-hezbollah-ties?utm_content=bufferd4816&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=facebook.com&amp;utm_campaign=buffer\">Al Akbar<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States moved Thursday to blacklist a group of companies it claimed covertly helped Lebanon&#8217;s powerful Hezbollah movement acquire components for surveillance drones. The US Treasury placed sanctions on Beirut-based Stars Group Holding, which it said purchased electronics and other technology via offices in China and Dubai to support Hezbollah&#8217;s military operations. That included &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9853,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":3,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1065,65,24,163,1066,109,314],"class_list":["post-9852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-islamic-research","tag-blacklist","tag-hezbollah","tag-lebanon-2","tag-ticker","tag-ties","tag-us","tag-west"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9852"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9854,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9852\/revisions\/9854"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}