Trump targets Iran’s top leaders with sanctions
President announces new punishments for the Islamic republic's rulers as tensions continue to escalate between the two states
President Donald Trump announced new sanctions targeting the most senior leaders of the Iranian regime — the latest escalation in rising tensions between the two countries.
Trump, signing the order on Monday, said the new sanctions would target Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Iran’s supreme leader.
Separately, Secretary of the Treasury Steve Mnuchin said sanctions also would target top leaders of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, the group seen as responsible for Iran’s adventurism in the region and terrorism elsewhere, and Javad Zarif, the foreign minister who helped negotiate the 2015 nuclear deal between Iran and six world powers led by the United States. Trump reviled the agreement and exited it last year.
Iran has announced its first intended breach of the deal, saying it will surpass allowable stockpiles of enriched uranium this week in response to increased U.S. pressure on the country.
Last week, Iran knocked an unmanned U.S. drone out of airspace, and Trump nearly ordered a counterattack, pulling back at the last minute because he learned it would cause casualties.
The 2015 deal swapped sanctions relief for a rollback in Iran’s nuclear program. Trump has said it was inadequate, wanting instead a deal that would end Iran’s nuclear program. He said Monday he is still open to negotiating with Iran.
Mnuchin would not say how the sanctions would affect the targets. U.S. sanctions target any third party who deals with a sanctioned entity or individual.
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