US Treasury imposes new Iran-related sanctions
The US Treasury on Friday imposed fresh Iran-related sanctions, targeting six Iranian officials responsible for the Islamic Republic's brutal crackdown on its own people.
Interior Minister Eskandar Momeni and the head of the IRGC Intelligence Organization Majid Khademi are among those blacklisted by the United States over their roles in the massacre.
Hamid Damghani, commander of the IRGC in Gilan; Mehdi Hajian, commander of the Law Enforcement Forces in Kermanshah province; Hossein Zarei Kamali, commander of the Ansar al-Hussein IRGC unit in Hamedan; and Ghorban Mohammad Vali-Zadeh, commander of the Seyyed al-Shohada IRGC in Tehran are other individuals added to the Treasury's blacklist.
The sanctions also targeted Iranian tycoon Babak 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," the Treasury said.
The Treasury also designated two digital asset exchanges linked to Zanjani that have "processed large volumes of funds associated with IRGC-linked counterparties."
