US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen will warn in a speech on Tuesday, excerpts of which have been published, that Washington “will not hesitate” with its allies to increase sanctions on Iran following the attack on Israel.
“ABOUT [Departamento do] “Treasury will not hesitate to work with our allies to use our sanctions to continue to undermine the Iranian regime’s harmful and destabilizing activities,” said President Joe Biden’s chief economic and financial officer.
Speaking at the opening press conference on the day of the start of the spring meetings of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank, Janet Yellen will emphasize that “Iran’s actions threaten the stability of the region and could have economic consequences.”
On Saturday evening, Tehran carried out a direct attack on Israeli territory in response to a deadly attack on its consulate in Damascus, Syria, attributed to Israel.
Since Joe Biden arrived at the White House in January 2021, the United States of America (USA) has targeted “more than 500 individuals and organizations associated with terrorism and terrorist financing by the Iranian regime” and various associated movements in the region, the person in charge will indicate .
Their targets were, in particular, “Iranian drone and missile programs and their funding from [movimento islamita palestiniano] Hamas, from [rebeldes iemenitas] Houthis, from [grupo xiita libanês] “Hezbollah and Iraqi militias,” he will say.
Yellen will insist that sanctions imposed on Hamas should not prevent the delivery of humanitarian aid to residents of the Gaza Strip, which has been battered by Israel’s war there for more than six months in response to an October 7 attack by the Palestinian Islamist movement on its territory. 2023, ensuring that the Treasury acted in a manner to “ensure that sanctions do not create barriers to life-saving assistance.”
“In the Gaza Strip, the entire population – more than two million people – faces severe food shortages and a large part of the population is displaced. All of us here in these meetings must do everything we can to put an end to this. to this suffering,” the US Treasury Secretary will support in his speech.
In addition, Washington intends to use the spring meetings of the IMF and World Bank to advance a plan to use Russia’s frozen assets to arm and rebuild Ukraine, which has faced a Russian military invasion since February, a Treasury official announced Monday. 2022.
“We continue to work with our international partners to unlock the economic value of frozen Russian sovereign assets and ensure that Russia pays for the damage it has caused,” Janet Yellen said.
The spring meetings of the IMF and World Bank began on Tuesday in Washington and will last a week.
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