In its latest action, the US Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control has added 16 individuals and 11 entities to its list of Sanctioned Individuals and Nationals (SDN) for their ties to the financial and commercial networks of the Islamic Republic of Iran. The US Treasury Department announced on Thursday, October 15 that these sanctions target a broad flow of sanctions evasion and transfer of financial resources, and include companies and individuals in Iran, the United Arab Emirates, Iraq, Cuba and Hong Kong. Among the newly sanctioned institutions, the names of several banks and stock exchange institutions can be seen in Hong Kong, including the "International Development Bank for Investment and Finance" in Iraq, the "International Trade Bank" of Cuba, the "International Bank of Habhar", the "International Bank of the Island" and groups of trading and stock exchange companies based in Iran and the United Arab Emirates, as well as the "Alitaspar" company. In addition to financial institutions, 16 senior managers and people associated with stock exchange and trading networks were also targets of the US Treasury's secondary restrictions under the "Executive Order 2012" related to sanctions on key sectors of Iran's economy.