Saudi Arabia has joined the US in imposing sanctions on a number of Lebanese nationals and a�company over their alleged financial support for Hezbollah�resistance movement.

On Thursday, the Saudi regime slapped sanctions on two individuals -- Muhammad al-Mukhtar Kallas and Hasan Jamal-al-Din -- and one firm, accusing them of funneling money to Hezbollah.

Riyadh ordered the asset freeze of the individuals, prohibiting any commercial licenses to be issued to them�in the kingdom.

The measure came after the US Treasury on Thursday announced that it had imposed sanctions on four Lebanese men and a�firm, accusing them of financing Hezbollah.

The US Treasury claimed that the men -- Muhammad al-Mukhtar Kallas, Hasan Jamal-al-Din, Yosef Ayad and Muhammad Ghaleb Hamdar -- had raised and generated funds to help Hezbollah.

Adam Szubin, US Treasury's acting�undersecretary for terrorism and financial intelligence, said the US designations were imposed under an executive order issued by former president, George W. Bush.�The executive order, announced Thursday by the US Treasury Department, had been a joint action with Saudi regime aimed at "disrupting Hezbollah's worldwide commercial and financial infrastructure."

The Treasury has vowed in a statement�to aggressively target Hezbollah and those supporting its activities. It has also�blacklisted the Tabaja-controlled company, Global Cleaners, which it said had won sanitation services contracts in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad.

Last year, the White House approved a bill which imposed sanctions against banks that do business with Hezbollah.

Washington falsely claims that the resistance movement condones�terrorism despite the fact that�Hezbollah has been involved in fierce fighting against Daesh terrorists in Syria.

Hezbollah was founded in the 1980s following the Israeli invasion and occupation of southern Lebanon.�The movement waged a long resistance campaign against Zionist troops and pushed them out of southern Lebanon in May 2000.�Since then, the group has grown into a powerful military force and has successfully defeated the Zionist regime several times.

Hezbollah has also supported the Syrian army in its fight against the foreign-sponsored terrorists, who have been wreaking havoc in the Arab country since March 2011.

Since its inception in 1985, the Islamic resistance movement has been a thorn in the side of Israel and its foreign backers, such as the United States.

By Press TV