Historical note: this page is preserved prototype and historical material. The live canonical public record for `Operation Epic Fury` is the bounded Phase 01 case .

Scope Note

Operation Epic Fury is an internal Bravo Intel Group case-file label. The accepted source documents grouped here do not use that phrase as an official public name. This page is a public record timeline built from a bounded set of preserved primary-source records for archive and analysis.

What This Case File Covers

This case file assembles four accepted Task 3 source records into one restrained timeline. The records cover:

  • Treasury sanctions and shadow-banking statements tied to Iranian oil revenue and procurement.
  • A Justice Department press release about a civil forfeiture complaint over Iranian petroleum sale proceeds.
  • A FinCEN advisory to financial institutions on Iranian oil smuggling, shadow banking, and weapons procurement.
  • One additional Treasury press release in the accepted corpus that documents smuggling and procurement activity involving Ansarallah and is treated here as adjacent public-record context, not stand-alone proof of a single common scheme.

Timeline

  • 2025-03-05. Treasury said OFAC took action against seven high-ranking members of Ansarallah and designated one affiliated operative and his company in connection with weapons procurement, smuggling, and recruitment activity. Citations: epic-fury-002 rendered.pdf#page=10, rendered.pdf#page=11.
  • 2025-03-26. Justice said a civil forfeiture complaint filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia alleged that $47 million in proceeds from the sale of nearly one million barrels of Iranian petroleum was forfeitable. The same release said the complaint alleged deceptive practices, including masking the oil as Malaysian and presenting falsified documents to a Croatian storage and port facility. Citations: epic-fury-003 rendered.pdf#page=4, rendered.pdf#page=5.
  • 2025-06-06. Treasury said OFAC designated over 30 individuals and entities tied to the Zarringhalam brothers and described the network as laundering billions of dollars through Iranian exchange houses and foreign front companies. The same release said FinCEN issued an updated advisory on oil smuggling, shadow banking, and weapons procurement. Citations: epic-fury-001 rendered.pdf#page=10, rendered.pdf#page=11.
  • 2025-06-06. FinCEN published advisory FIN-2025-A002 and asked financial institutions to include the key term IRAN-2025-A002 in SAR field 2 and in the narrative when reporting covered suspicious activity. Citations: epic-fury-004 original.pdf#page=1, original.pdf#page=10.

Key Claims

  • claim-epic-fury-001: Treasury said on March 5, 2025 that OFAC acted against seven high-ranking members of Ansarallah and designated one affiliated operative and his company.
  • claim-epic-fury-002: Justice said on March 26, 2025 that a civil forfeiture complaint sought $47 million tied to nearly one million barrels of Iranian petroleum.
  • claim-epic-fury-003: The Justice release said the complaint alleged the oil was masked as Malaysian and supported with falsified documents.
  • claim-epic-fury-004: Treasury said on June 6, 2025 that OFAC designated over 30 individuals and entities tied to the Zarringhalam brothers and that FinCEN issued an updated advisory the same day.
  • claim-epic-fury-005: The FinCEN advisory published on June 6, 2025 carries the identifier FIN-2025-A002.
  • claim-epic-fury-006: The FinCEN advisory asked institutions to include IRAN-2025-A002 in SAR field 2 and in the narrative.

Source Notes

  • epic-fury-001 is an official Treasury HTML press release preserved through Task 3 as raw HTML and an archival rendered.pdf.
  • epic-fury-002 is an official Treasury HTML press release preserved through Task 3 as raw HTML and an archival rendered.pdf. It supplies adjacent public-record context on smuggling and procurement but does not, by itself, prove a unified operation across the full source set.
  • epic-fury-003 is an official Justice Department HTML press release. The release itself states that a civil forfeiture complaint is an allegation and that the burden to prove forfeitability remains on the government.
  • epic-fury-004 is a direct FinCEN PDF. It provides the case file’s clearest direct-PDF citation path and records the advisory number and SAR filing instruction.

Limits and Non-Claims

  • This case file does not assert that the source documents describe a single officially named operation called Operation Epic Fury.
  • It does not treat a civil forfeiture complaint as an adjudicated finding.
  • It does not claim that every actor or event named across these records has been proven part of one coordinated scheme.
  • It does not infer command relationships, causation, or covert-operation status beyond what the cited documents themselves say.

Linked Claims

Claims ledger references

  • claim-epic-fury-001: A March 5, 2025 Treasury press release said OFAC took action against seven high-ranking members of Ansarallah and designated one affiliated operative and his company.
  • claim-epic-fury-002: A March 26, 2025 Justice Department press release said a civil forfeiture complaint sought $47 million in proceeds from the sale of nearly one million barrels of Iranian petroleum.
  • claim-epic-fury-003: The same Justice press release said the complaint alleged the oil was masked as Malaysian and supported with falsified documents presented to a Croatian storage and port facility.
  • claim-epic-fury-005: The FinCEN advisory published on June 6, 2025 carries the identifier FIN-2025-A002.
  • claim-epic-fury-006: The FinCEN advisory asked financial institutions to include the key term IRAN-2025-A002 in SAR field 2 and in the narrative when reporting covered suspicious activity.
  • claim-epic-fury-004: A June 6, 2025 Treasury press release said OFAC designated over 30 individuals and entities tied to the Zarringhalam brothers and said FinCEN issued a concurrent updated advisory.