June 19, 2024
Since October 2023, the U.S. has been targeting the network of Sa’id al-Jamal, a Houthi financial facilitator, with various economic sanctions. Just recently, the Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) initiated a 7th round of financial sanctions against Sa’id al-Jamal and everyone who is supporting him. The sanctions specifically mention ten…
June 12, 2024
The Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) is a U.S. governmental agency that’s tasked with ensuring that no one in the states is supporting terrorists, restricted governments, or other entities that are determined to be national threats. To enforce restrictions and uphold national security, the OFAC issues sanctions. These sanctions prohibit anyone from doing business…
June 5, 2024
Sanctions are a type of legal action taken by one country in order to punish another country, state, business, or group. These sanctions limit the freedom of the target and possibly put economic or political restrictions on them. For example, one country’s bad behavior might lead another country to put trade restrictions in place or…