U.S. President Donald J. Trump announced a surge in defense investment from Allies that will build on commitments made last year to work toward a benchmark five percent GDP investment by each member state.
Regardless of the financial instrument, method of transmission, or location of the funds, the Treasury Department will relentlessly pursue ISIS’s finances and disrupt their ability to harm Americans.
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Armenian Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan continued the establishment of a new era in cooperation between the United States and Armenia
“For more than two months now, these innocent sailors and commercial crew members have been stranded out at sea” due to because Iran’s blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, said Secretary of State Marco Rubio in a White House press conference.
“We will relentlessly target the regime’s ability to generate, move, and repatriate funds, and pursue anyone enabling Tehran’s attempts to evade sanctions.”
The Treasury Department has frozen more than $344 million in cryptocurrency tied to Iran.
Russia and China voted to veto a draft resolution earlier this month that sought to protect freedom of navigation and maritime security in and around the Strait of Hormuz.
“The Trump administration,” declared Secretary of State Marco Rubio, “will never allow America to become a home for foreign nationals tied to anti-American terrorist regimes."
The blockade will be enforced impartially against vessels of all nations entering or departing Iranian ports and coastal areas, including all Iranian ports on the Arabian Gulf and Gulf of Oman.
The success of the U.S. military created the leverage necessary for President Trump and his team to engage in tough negotiations that have now created an opening for long-term peace in the Middle East.
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