The vast network, which the son of a top Iranian adviser runs, “highlights how the Iranian regime elites leverage their positions to accrue massive wealth and fund the regime’s dangerous behavior,” the U.S. treasury secretary stated.
U.S. President Donald Trump and his national security team meet in the Situation Room of the White House about a U.S. strike on Iranian nuclear sites, June 21, 2025. Credit: Daniel Torok/White House.
(July 30, 2025 / JNS) The U.S. The Treasury Department took its largest action against Iran since 2018, announcing sanctions against a shipping empire managed by Mohammad Hossein Shamkhani, whose father Ali Shamkhani is a senior political adviser to the Islamic Republic’s supreme leader.




Estados Unidos reanudó junto con sus aliados árabes los ataques aéreos contra posiciones del autodenominado Estado Islámico (EI) en Siria, esta vez dirigidos a las instalaciones petrolíferas controladas por los jihadistas.