{"id":500208,"date":"2026-06-19T03:36:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T03:36:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/500208\/"},"modified":"2026-06-19T03:36:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T03:36:14","slug":"lebanese-officials-companies-sanctioned-by-us-for-support-of-hezbollah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/500208\/","title":{"rendered":"Lebanese officials, companies sanctioned by US for support of Hezbollah"},"content":{"rendered":"

The US issued new sanctions against two Hezbollah<\/a>-aligned Lebanese officials and other members of a Hezbollah business network overseen by a previously designated individual, the US State Department announced on Thursday.<\/p>\n

The two officials, named Sleiman Antoine Frangie and Mahmoud Qamati, were added to the US Treasury Department\u2019s<\/a> Office of Foreign Assets Control\u2019s (OFAC) Specially Designated Nationals (SDN) list.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Both were sanctioned under the authority of Executive Order 13224, which allows the White House to target groups and individuals associated with designated terrorist groups.<\/p>\n

Frangie is the leader of Lebanon\u2019s Marada Movement, and has previously served in several Lebanese governments. Moreover, he initially stood as a Hezbollah-favored candidate in the Lebanese presidential election until his withdrawal in 2024.<\/p>\n

The other individual sanctioned, Qamati, has been a longtime senior member of Hezbollah. In early 2026, he called for the Lebanese government\u2019s overthrow and compared the government to Vichy France in an interview with Al Jazeera.<\/p>\n

\"HezbollahHezbollah supporters hold flags and posters during a rally in Beirut’s southern suburbs, Lebanon June 10, 2026. (credit: REUTERS\/MOHAMED AZAKIR)Sanctioned officials worked to ‘undermine’ Lebanese gov.<\/p>\n

American individuals and businesses are forbidden from working with SDN-listed individuals or groups, and those listed have their US-based assets frozen.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese officials have used their influence to deliberately and systematically undermine the authority of the Lebanese state,\u201d wrote US State Department spokesperson Tommy Pigott.<\/p>\n

\u201cBy aligning themselves with Hezballah, a terrorist organization, they have prevented the Lebanese government from exercising full control over its territories and over its future. These activities obstruct efforts to restore a sovereign, independent Lebanon, instead entrenching a system of parallel power that keeps Lebanon weak and divided, at the expense of the entire Middle East.\u201d<\/p>\n

Another Lebanese national, Wael Constateen, was also listed as a SDN for carrying a close connection to previously sanctioned Alaa Hassan Hamieh, the leader of an international Hezbollah-supporting network encompassing Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Oman.<\/p>\n

Hamieh’s organization \u201craise[s] funds, execute[s] contracts, and operate[s] front companies to generate revenue for [Hezbollah] terrorists<\/a>,\u201d according to Pigott\u2019s statement.<\/p>\n

Hezbollah needs to disarm for regional peace, statement says<\/p>\n

Additionally, five companies said to be a part of Hamieh\u2019s network were included in the sanctions package.<\/p>\n

\u201c[Hezbollah] is a terrorist organization that puts Iran, not Lebanon, first,\u201d the statement continued. It “is the single biggest obstacle to Lebanon\u2019s recovery and future, and holds the state hostage to a permanent state of conflict.”<\/p>\n

“Those who continue to provide political cover and material support to [Hezbollah] will suffer the consequences of their choices.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor the sake of lasting peace in the region and Lebanese<\/a> stability and prosperity,\u201d the statement adds, \u201c[Hezbollah] must disarm, its infrastructure must be dismantled, and the Lebanese state must regain its control of Lebanon\u2019s future.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThe United States will continue to target [Hezbollah\u2019s] finances and those who help the group undermine the state of Lebanon.\u201d<\/p>\n

These sanctions come as the US and Iran agreed on a deal to, among other things, end the fighting between Israel and Hezbollah in southern Lebanon, as well as a push from the Lebanese government to disarm Hezbollah.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The US issued new sanctions against two Hezbollah-aligned Lebanese officials and other members of a Hezbollah business network…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":500209,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,86,88,43,4321,13931,40,38,41,39,1032,65346],"class_list":["post-500208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-hezbollah","tag-lebanon","tag-news","tag-sanctions","tag-state-department","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-united-states","tag-us-treasury-department"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=500208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500208\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/500209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=500208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=500208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=500208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}