WASHINGTON, Sept 18 (Reuters) – The United States issued a new round of Iran sanctions on Wednesday targeting 12 individuals who it said were tied to Tehran’s “ongoing, violent repression of the Iranian people,” including its “brutal crackdown on peaceful protests.”
The sanctions, which come two years after the death of Kurdish-Iranian woman Mahsa Amini in police custody, target members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), Iranian prison officials “and those responsible for lethal operations overseas,” the U.S. Treasury Department said in a statement.
(Reporting by Susan Heavey and Jasper Ward; Editing by Doina Chiacu)
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