HRH Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman met in Riyadh with United States Secretary of the Treasury Steven Mnuchin. During the meeting, they stressed the importance of the Saudi-US strategic partnership and the future role of this partnership in accordance with the Kingdom's Vision 2030. The bilateral relations between the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the United States of America were also reviewed on both the trade and investment sides and the opportunities for their development. The meeting touched on a number of issues, including joint efforts in the fight against corruption and the financing of terrorism. The meeting was attended by HRH Ambassador Prince Khalid Bin Salman, the Kingdom’s Ambassador to the US, the Minister of Finance His Excellency Mohammed Al-Jadaan, and other officials.

In a collective effort to identify, tackle and share information related to terrorist financing networks and their activities of mutual concerns, including threats emerging from countries supporting terrorism and terrorist organizations, and in coordinating among Terrorist Financing Targeting Center (TFTC) Members, TFTC co-chair (Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and United States of America) , as well as, the other TFTC Members (Kingdom of Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates, the State of Kuwait, the Sultanate of Oman, and the State of Qatar) designated individuals associated to the Taliban; including Iranian facilitators:

1- Mohammad Ebrahim Owhadi

2- Esmail Razzavi Abdullah Samad Farugui

3- Mohammad Daoud Muzzamil

4- Abdulrahim Manan

5- Mohammad Naim Barich

6- Abdulaziz Shah Zamani

7- Sadr Ibrahim

8- Hafiz Abdulmaj

Also, in another multilateral action, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the Kingdom of Bahrain designated (4) names (previously designated by the U.S. Treasury), which provide the sponsorship, both financial and material support, to the Iranian terrorist activities:

1. Qasem Soleimani

2. Hamed Abdollahi

3. Abdul Reza Shahlai

4. Iranian Revolutionary Guard

This action is the third collective TFTC designation action since the center was announced on May 21, 2017. The TFTC is an effort to expand and strengthen member cooperation to counter terrorist financing, coordination to disrupt funding of terrorism, sharing the information and capacity building to target the financing networks and the related activities that pose threats to the TFTC members national security.  As a result of this action, and pursuant to TFTC members domestic laws, all assets, properties and related revenues to these names will be frozen in the designating countries and persons are prohibited from engaging in any transaction with the designated names.