Treasury Department Won't Freeze Mohammed Taheri-Azar's Assets, Either
By Andrew Cochran
Another point to add to Daveed's excellent post below: if the Treasury Department wanted to seriously investigate Mohammed Taheri-Azar for possible terrorist connections, they could designate him under the OFAC program and freeze his assets to prevent him or his family from moving them overseas. Treasury did exactly that to the Ohio-based, Hamas-associated KindHearts charity on February 19, without any prosecution of its officers or directors. But one e-mail exchange yesterday with a Treasury official who is in the loop on all terrorist designations convinced me that they won't designate Taheri-Azar. Believe me, if any key official in the Justice or Treasury Departments thought that this kid is a real terrorist, they would move in that direction, and they're not.
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