In TFTC’s first joint disruptive action on October 2017, members imposed sanctions on eight individuals and one entity, targeting leaders, financiers, and facilitators of the ISIS in Yemen (ISIS-Y) and al-Qa’ida in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP). This action focused on terrorists in Yemen and the surrounding region who posed a direct threat to the security of the TFTC member states, Yemen, and the international community.

The TFTC’s second designation in May 2018 aimed to disrupt Lebanese Hizballah, and focused on their senior leadership by designating 14 Hizballah members and affiliates. TFTC members designated members of Hizballah’s Shura Council, the primary decision-making body of Hizballah, to include Hasan Nasrallah, Hizballah’s Secretary General. The Shura Council is Hizballah’s supreme decision-making body responsible for religious, military, and strategic matters and asserts control over administrative, planning, and policy-making authorities.

TFTC’s third designation on October 28, 2018 included nine individuals from South Asian terrorist groups and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-Qods Force. These designations, in addition to disrupting terrorist safe havens in South Asia, highlighted Iran’s financial and material support to these groups.

TFTC’s fourth joint action in October 2019 marked its most ambitious tranche and included 25 targets affiliated with the Iranian regime’s terror-support networks in the region. In another first, this action primarily focused on the financial infrastructure of terrorist networks, specifically targeting entities providing cover to facilitate terrorist financing. Several of the businesses targeted in this action provided financial support to the Basij Resistance Force (Basij), a paramilitary force subordinate to the IRGC that have long been used as shock troops by the regime to oppress domestic opposition and foment regional conflicts. This coordinated action provided a concrete step towards denying the Iranian regime the ability to undermine the stability of the region. Four of the targets designated were Hizballah-affiliated individuals who led and coordinated the group’s operational, intelligence, and financial activities in Iraq.

The TFTC jointly designated six targets affiliated with the (ISIS) that had provided a critical financial and logistical lifeline to ISIS, its branches, and its global facilitation networks. These money services businesses played a vital role in transferring funds to support Syria-based ISIS fighters and provided hundreds of thousands of dollars of liquidity to ISIS leadership. This coordinated action further challenged ISIS’s ability to conceal its activities and finance its operations through key money services businesses.

The TFTC’s six joint action involved proposals submitted by several member states, and included three individuals from Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-Qods Force (IRGC-QF), four ISIS-associated individuals and one company, and six Boko Haram financiers. For the first time, the TFTC coordinated the designation of terrorist groups, as member states sanctioned Saraya al-Ashtar and Saraya al-Mukhtar.