Jan. 16 (UPI) -- The United States has sanctioned five Iranian security officials, a notorious women's prison and a money laundering network in a sign of support for Iranians protesting their government despite bloody resistance from the Tehran regime.
The Fardis Prison was blacklisted Thursday by the State Department, while the Treasury sanctioned Ali Larijani, the secretary of Iran's Supreme Council for National Security; four other security officials and 18 individuals and entities accused of being a so-called shadow banking network used to facilitate tens of billions of dollars of annual trade.
"The United States stands firmly behind the Iranian people in their call for freedom and justice," Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent said in a statement.
"At the direction of President [Donald] Trump, the Treasury Department is sanctioning key Iranian leaders involved in the brutal crackdown against the Iranian people."
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