US Introduces New Tough Sanctions on Iran

The United States on Friday, January 10, announced the introduction of new sanctions against Iran. This was announced during a press briefing in the White House by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Secretary of the Department of Finance Stephen Mnuchin.

According to Mnuchin, new sanctions against the Iranian regime were introduced as a punishment for the attack committed by Tehran on Tuesday against US troops in Iraq. The sanctions will affect senior Iranian officials and security officials who were involved in rocket attacks on military bases in Iraq, Mnuchin added.

Mike Pompeo said that the United States had information about an immediate threat from Iran in relation to American facilities, including US diplomatic missions.

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The Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) imposed sanctions on eight senior Iranian officials, as well as Iran’s largest steel, aluminum, copper, and iron producers, earning billions of dollars in revenue each year.

According to a press release issued Friday morning, the sanctions list included Ali Shamkhani, secretary of the Supreme Council for National Security of Iran, Mohammad Reza Ashtiani, deputy chief of staff of the Iranian armed forces, and Golamreza Suleymani, head of the Basij militia, which is part of Corps of the Guardians of the Islamic Revolution (IRGC).

In addition, 17 Iranian metal producers and mining companies, a holding consisting of three companies registered in China and the Seychelles, as well as a vessel involved in the purchase and sale of Iranian metal products, were sanctioned.

Along with these measures, President Trump signed a decree on Friday, January 10, against additional sources of profit used by the Iranian regime to finance and support the nuclear missile program, terrorism and the financing of terrorist puppet combat organizations, as well as to maliciously influence the region.

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According to the decree, the secretary of the finance department, after consultation with the secretary of state, may be delegated authority to impose sanctions on people working in other sectors of the Iranian economy, including construction, mining, industrial production and the textile industry.

As explained by Mnuchin, the US Treasury Department will provide a temporary exemption from the need to comply with the sanctions regime to all who will participate in the investigation. crash Ukrainian Boeing near Tehran. The plane of the Ukrainian airline UIA, flying from Tehran to Kiev, crashed shortly after takeoff. Boeing flew out of Tehran International Airport immediately after Iran launched rocket fire at military bases in Iraq.

ForumDaily wrote earlier:

• In November, the 2019 USA have expanded sanctions against Iranadding to the restrictive lists the construction sector of the Islamic Republic and banning the supply of a number of materials that can be used for nuclear and missile programs. The State Department also extended the exceptions that allow Russia, China and European countries to continue working at Iranian nuclear facilities, which would not allow Tehran to use them for nuclear research.
• The plane of the Ukrainian airline crashed on the morning of January 8. At 6:13 local time, he flew from Tehran International Airport to Kiev. Passenger Boeing 737-800 managed to rise to a height of 8000 feet (2438 m), after which information about its location disappeared from the radar screen of the dispatcher. Pilots did not transmit emergency messages on board. A few minutes after takeoff, the plane crashed.

• Ukrainian authorities have banned domestic airlines from flying over Iran.

• Life stories of Ukrainians who died in a plane crash in Iran, read in our material.

• January 9, Ukrainian official saidthat the country sees Russia's missile strike as one of several possible reasons crash of the Ukrainian passenger plane.