The US Treasury Department announced on Friday the inclusion of Lebanese Hezbollah leader Salman Raouf Salman on the terrorism list and has offered a reward of up to $7 million for information.
“The US Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) designated a senior member of Hezbollah's External Security Organization (ESO), which is responsible for the planning, coordination, and execution of terrorist attacks outside of Lebanon. Specifically, OFAC designated Salman Raouf Salman for acting for or on behalf of Hezbollah,” an official statement read.
“We are targeting Salman Raouf Salman, who coordinated a devastating attack in Buenos Aires, Argentina against the largest Jewish center in South America 25 years ago and has directed terrorist operations in the Western Hemisphere for Hezbollah ever since,” said Sigal Mandelker, Treasury’s Under Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence.
“The United States will continue to work with the Government of Argentina, and our friends throughout the region and the world, to ensure that Hezbollah operatives can never disassociate themselves from their terrorist actions, and to prevent them from carrying out new attacks that enable Iran’s malign agenda,” the statement added.
Under US Treasury sanctions, any assets belonging to Salman will be frozen. Born in the city of San Andres in Colombia in 1965, Salman has Lebanese and Colombian nationalities and is believed to be currently residing in Lebanon.
