US treasury issues new sanctions against Iran

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News ID: 22762
Iran » Iran
Publish Date: 22:30 - 10 May 2018
TEHRAN, May 10 - The US Treasury has blacklisted six individuals reportedly associated with Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and three related business entities, just days after the US withdrew from the 2015 nuclear deal.

TEHRAN, Young Journalists Club (YJC) – The US Treasury has blacklisted six individuals reportedly associated with Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and three related business entities, just days after the US withdrew from the 2015 nuclear deal.

On Tuesday, US President Donald Trump announced the US would be withdrawing from the 2015 nuclear deal, known as the JCPOA, negotiated by the Obama administration. Washington will re-impose the “highest level” of sanctions against Tehran, Trump said, threatening Iran with “bigger problems than it has ever had before” if it continues work on developing nuclear weapons.

Following a cabinet meeting on Wednesday, Trump said the JCPOA was a  “terrible deal that should have never been made,” and that Iran’s involvement in Syria and Yemen has created “bedlam and death,” which the US cannot allow to continue.

Other signatories of the JCPOA, including three European powers, Russia and China, have criticized the US decision to unilaterally withdraw from the arrangement. Iranian president Hassan Rouhani said that Tehran will continue to abide by the deal after the “illegal” US withdrawal.

Source: RT

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