The U.S. Department of State and the Treasury Department have reimposed sanctions on Belarusian company Armory Alliance LLC and on Mohammadmahdi Maleki, an Iranian citizen residing in Belarus who works for the company.
The sanctions were initially imposed on May 8. The new decision by the State Department and the Treasury Department adds an additional sanctions regime related to countering conventional arms procurement.
Compared with the May decision, the State Department also provided a more detailed account of the role played by Armory Alliance LLC.
“Armory Alliance is a Belarus-based entity that has acted as an intermediary between China-based companies and Iran and has been involved in facilitating the purchase of hundreds of man-portable air-defense systems (MANPADS) and their shipment from China to Iran including attempting to route the shipments through third party countries and obfuscating their origin and true end-user,” the press release said.
