The Trump administration on Friday imposed fresh sanctions on Tehran following Iranian attacks on commercial ships in the Strait of Hormuz earlier this week, APA reports citing CNN.
The sanctions are the latest in a string of retaliatory actions by the administration for those attacks. They come as the administration seeks to re-up pressure on the regime as diplomatic efforts falter. The US earlier this week carried out days of bombing of Iranian targets and rescinded a waiver to allow Iran to sell its oil without sanctions.
On Friday, President Donald Trump again declared that the US-Iran memorandum of understanding is “over,” but said that talks with Tehran would continue.
The latest sanctions target Iranian financial facilitator Ali Ansari, who the Treasury Department said, “oversees a sprawling global network of assets benefitting Iran’s leader—Mojtaba Khamenei—and other regime elites.” The sanctions also hit “key Iranian exchange houses that move billions of dollars annually on behalf of sanctioned Iranian banks,” according to the department.
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