US Announces New Sanctions on Iran

The Trump Administration upped the pressure on Iran yesterday with the Treasury Department’s announcement of new U.S. sanctions against officials of the Interior Ministry and the IRGC for supposedly orchestrating the massacre of thousands of peaceful protestors. “Among the officials sanctioned today is Eskandar Momeni Kalagari —Iran’s Minister of the Interior—who oversees the murderous Law Enforcement Forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran (LEF), a key entity responsible for the deaths of thousands of peaceful protestors,” the statement proclaimed. “OFAC also designated Babak Morteza Zanjani, a criminal Iranian investor who previously embezzled billions of dollars in Iranian oil revenue that rightfully belonged to the Iranian people and was never fully recovered. Freed from imprisonment in order to launder money for the regime, Zanjani has provided financial backing for major projects that support the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and the Iranian regime more broadly.”