Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Wednesday that the United States is escalating efforts to cut the financial lifelines of violent far‑left groups, announcing new sanctions against three organizations and two individuals. The Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) designated Italy‑based Autistici Inventati, the United Kingdom’s Palestine Action, and the transnational group Masar Badil under Executive Order 13224, the government’s primary counterterrorism sanctions authority. Germany‑based Zaid Abdulnasser and Brazil‑based Rawa Alsagheer were designated as leaders of Masar Badil.
“Far‑left extremists, their fronts, and their enablers should be on notice: We will bring the full weight of our economic tools to bear,” Bessent wrote. “Political terrorism has no place in our society, and we will continue to cut the financial lifelines of these groups until they are eliminated.”
Who was designated
According to Treasury, OFAC listed Autistici Inventati (Italy), Palestine Action (United Kingdom), and Masar Badil (transnational), along with Zaid Abdulnasser (Germany) and Rawa Alsagheer (Brazil) as Masar Badil leaders.
State Department allegations and Rubio’s warning
Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced a parallel designation the same day. “Far‑left terrorism poses a profound threat to the United States and the broader West,” Rubio told Fox News Digital. “Today, the United States sanctioned Autistici/Inventati – a major far‑left tech collective whose services are used by the most active and violent Antifa cells in the United States and across the world.”
The State Department said Oregon‑based Rose City Antifa used Autistici/Inventati’s tools to organize and incite violent acts inside the United States. The department also said a far‑left media group on the same infrastructure publishes communiqués for the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). According to the department, that media group was cited in a federal complaint against a domestic terrorist sentenced to 19 years for bombing a federal building and a police car.
What Treasury says the tech collective provides
Treasury said Autistici Inventati supplies encrypted email, web hosting, and video conferencing to groups it vets for ideological alignment, including the Kurdistan Workers’ Party.
Palestine Action’s contested status in the U.K.
According to the source material’s summary of U.K. actions, Palestine Action was proscribed by the British government in July 2025 after break‑ins at defense sites and military installations. A U.K. court quashed that ban in February; an appeals court restored it in June.
Masar Badil and PFLP‑linked designations
Masar Badil was designated as a front for the Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network, which the United States and Canada sanctioned in October 2024 as a PFLP front, according to the source material. The PFLP has been a designated Foreign Terrorist Organization since 1997.
Strategy backdrop and next steps
The 2026 U.S. Counterterrorism Strategy identifies violent far‑left groups as one of three major terrorist threats facing the United States, per the source material. Bessent previously outlined Treasury’s plans to choke off political‑terrorism financing at a State Department summit in July that drew delegations from more than 70 countries.
What the sanctions do
Under OFAC rules, all property and interests in property of the designated parties that are in the United States or in the possession or control of U.S. persons are blocked and must be reported to OFAC. Entities owned 50 percent or more by one or more blocked persons are also blocked.
