Trump administration announces sanctions on Iran's foreign minister

Source: The Hill | July 31, 2019 | Ellen Mitchell

The Trump administration on Wednesday announced additional U.S. sanctions against Iran, this time targeting Tehran’s top diplomat, Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif.

The Treasury Department said in a statement that it imposed sanctions on Zarif because he “acted or purported to act for or on behalf of, directly or indirectly, the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran.”

A senior administration official added on a call with reporters that Zarif “defends the regime’s persecution of the Iranian people, and he recently endorsed the practice of executing gay people, as well as the regime’s oppression of free speech.”

The official maintained that the Iranian diplomat’s office “functions as an extension” of the office of Iran’s supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, as well as the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), which the U.S. has designated as a foreign terrorist organization.

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