U.S. imposed more sanctions on Iran in retaliation to its missile attack on American forces in Iraq
WASHINGTON - The United States imposed more sanctions on Iran on Friday in retaliation for its missile attack on U.S. forces in Iraq this week and vowed to tighten the economic screws if Tehran continued “terrorist” acts or pursued a nuclear bomb.
No one was harmed in the Iranian ballistic missile attacks and the two sides seem to have stepped back from the brink of all-out conflict. President Donald Trump vowed on Wednesday to impose the additional sanctions, the most concrete U.S. response yet to the attacks. A commander of Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards who was one of those sanctioned on Friday brushed of the new U.S. move as “symbolic.”
Those U.S. sanctions have driven down Iranian crude sales, the Islamic Republic’s main source of revenues, but so far have not brought Iran back to the negotiating table to discuss a new nuclear pact as sought by Trump. “This is a joke. These designations target an industry that is supposed to be off limits anyway and senior officials most of which were already designated,” said Nephew, now a senior research scholar and adjunct professor at Columbia University.
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