Iranian regime elites allegedly move millions of dollars out of country amid sanctions

Members of Iran’s ruling elite are said to have moved “tens of millions of dollars” out of the country as the U.S. imposed fresh sanctions over the regime’s violent protest crackdown, according to reports.The regime’s “capital flight” came as the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control announced on Jan. 15 in a release that it was taking “action against the shadow banking networks that allow Iran’s elite to steal and launder revenue generated by the country’s natural resources.””There are several reports, some of which are yet to be confirmed, about capital flight in various forms from the Islamic Republic,” Behnam Ben Taleblu, a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, told Fox News Digital.US AMBASSADOR WARNS IRAN AT EMERGENCY UN MEETING THAT TRUMP IS ‘MAN OF ACTION,’ ‘ALL OPTIONS ARE ON THE TABLE’If confirmed, Ben Taleblu said, the suspected exodus of money underscores the need for U.S. authorities to track and “freeze and seize” assets tied to sanctioned figures.”If capital flight has taken place, then these are accounts that the U.S. government should be looking to monitor, block, freeze and seize,” he said.”At the direction of President Trump, the Treasury Department is sanctioning key Iranian leaders involved in the brutal crackdown against the Iranian people. Treasury will use every tool to target those behind the regime’s tyrannical oppression of human rights,” Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent also said in a statement on Jan. 15.Bessent went on to reveal in an interview how his department had tracked…

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