New penalties come as US President Trump welcomes purported Iranian decision to halt execution of antigovernment demonstrators.
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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.
