"New penalties come as US President Trump welcomes purported Iranian decision to halt execution of antigovernment demonstrators. The United States has imposed new sanctions against Iran, targeting political and security officials over the crackdown on antigovernment protesters, amid US President Donald Trump's threats to intervene militarily against the country. The US penalties on Tuesday targeted Ali Larijani, the secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council (SNCS), and several other officials, who it said were the architects of Tehran's brutal response to the demonstrations."
"The United States stands firmly behind the Iranian people in their call for freedom and justice, US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said in a statement. At the direction of President Trump, the Treasury Department is sanctioning key Iranian leaders involved in the brutal crackdown against the Iranian people. Treasury will use every tool to target those behind the regime's tyrannical oppression of human rights."
"Larijani is a close adviser to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Earlier this week, after Trump called on Iranians to take over public institutions and save the names of the killers and abusers, Larijani was quick to respond, accusing Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of killing Iranians. We declare the names of the main killers of the people of Iran: 1- Trump 2- Netanyahu, he wrote on X."
United States imposed new sanctions on Iranian political and security officials in response to Tehran's crackdown on antigovernment protesters, targeting Ali Larijani and others. The sanctions freeze the individuals' assets in the US and prohibit American citizens from doing business with them. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the measures aim to target leaders involved in the brutal crackdown. With Iran already under heavy sanctions, the new measures are largely symbolic but signal mounting US pressure amid widespread demonstrations. Thousands of protesters are believed killed, according to activist groups, while the Iranian government describes demonstrators as armed rioters allegedly incited by US and Israel.
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