Iran Guard, Sulaimani added to terror list

Nine linked to Taliban, Iranian facilitators also get terrorist tag

Bahrain and Saudi Arabia have placed the Iranian Revolutionary Guard and Qassem Sulaimani, an Iranian major general in the Revolutionary Guards, on a list of terrorists.

Two other individuals, Hamed Abdollahi and Abdul Reza Shahlai, were also put on the list of those who “provide the sponsorship and financial and material support to the Iranian terrorist activities.”

Nine more people, associated with the Taliban, and including Iranian facilitators, were designated as terrorists by the members of the Terrorist Financing Targeting Centre (TFTC), co-chaired by Saudi Arabia and the US and comprising Bahrain, the UAE, Kuwait, Oman and Qatar.

The designation was “a collective effort to identify, tackle and share information related to terrorist financing networks and their activities of mutual concerns, including threats emerging from countries supporting terrorism and terrorist organisations,” TFTC said.

The UAE Cabinet yesterday added the names of nine more individuals to the list of terrorism supporters.

The move, which was taken according to Cabinet decision No 50 of 2018, comes in line with the UAE’s keenness to target and disrupt networks associated with terrorist financing and activities.

The new names include Mohammad Ebrahim Ohadi, Esmail Radhwi, Abdullah Samad Farouqi, Mohammad Dawood, Abdul Rahim Mannan, Mohammad Naeem Barashi, Abdul Aziz Aziz Shah Zamani, Sadar Ebrahim and Hafeez Abdul Majeed.

The Cabinet instructed the UAE Central Bank to take necessary legal procedures to freeze accounts of these individuals on the terrorism list.

The nine names have also been included on Bahrain and Saudi Arabia’s terror lists. The move is part of joint efforts by GCC countries and the US to fight terrorism.