The United States on Thursday announced a far-reaching new round of sanctions against Iran, targeting senior security officials, a notorious prison accused of abusing detainees, and a sprawling network of front companies used to launder billions of dollars from oil and petrochemical sales, as protests continue to roil the country.
The coordinated action by the State Department and the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) is aimed at what US officials called the “architects” of the Iranian regime’s violent crackdown on peaceful demonstrators and the financial machinery that sustains the government’s repression.
