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US Slaps Iran with New Sanctions despite Nuke Deal Compliance

US Slaps Iran with New Sanctions despite Nuke Deal Compliance
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Trump's US administration imposed new sanctions on companies and individuals that it says provide material support to Iran's military, as well as on organizations involved in the country's ballistic missile program.

US Slaps Iran with New Sanctions despite Nuke Deal Compliance

The restrictions, though, are not related to Iran's nuclear program.

The US Department of the Treasury "designated 16 entities and individuals for engaging in support of illicit Iranian actors or transnational criminal activity," the department announced on Tuesday.

The announcement came one day after the Trump administration certified that Tehran is in compliance with the terms of the landmark 2015 nuclear agreement designed to ensure Iran doesn't make nuclear weapons.

The new sanctions "target procurement of advanced military hardware, such as fast attack boats and unmanned aerial vehicles, and send a strong signal that the United States cannot and will not tolerate Iran's provocative and destabilizing behavior," said US Treasury Secretary Steven T. Mnuchin in a statement.

"We will continue to target the [Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps] and pressure Iran to cease its ballistic missile program and malign activities in the region," he added.

For his part, President Donald Trump accused Iran of being a "state sponsor of terrorism," but his administration stopped short of designating Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps [IRGC] as a terrorist organization, although it reportedly considered doing so.

"Counting the Revolutionary Guard the same as terrorist groups and applying similar sanctions to the Revolutionary Guard is a big risk for America and its bases and forces deployed in the region," Iran's armed forces chief of staff, Mohammad Baqeri, said on Monday, according to Sepah News, an official news site of the Guard.

Baqeri did not elaborate on any potential consequences that the US could face.

He also said that Iran's ballistic missile program is purely defensive and entirely non-negotiable.

Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team

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