The White House said Tuesday that President Biden would impose new sanctions on Iran’s missile and drone programs following Tehran’s weekend attack on Israel.
The White House said Tuesday that President Biden would impose new sanctions on Iran’s missile and drone programs following Tehran’s weekend attack on Israel.
National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan made a vague announcement about the penalties amid bipartisan pressure to take action and forcefully enact existing sanctions on the Islamic Republic.
“In the coming days, the United States will impose new sanctions targeting Iran, including its missile and drone program as well as new sanctions against entities supporting the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and Iran’s Defense Ministry,” Sullivan said in a statement.
“These new sanctions and other measures will continue a steady drumbeat of pressure to contain and degrade Iran’s military capacity and effectiveness and confront the full range of its problematic behaviors.”
Sullivan wrote that under Biden, the US has imposed sanctions on “over 600 individuals and entities connected to terrorism, terrorist financing and other forms of illicit trade, horrific human rights abuses, and support for proxy terrorist groups, including Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis, and Kataib Hezbollah.
