The American secretary of the Treasury, Steven Mnuchin, detailed, Friday, January 10, the new sanctions taken against Iran. They target eight senior officials of the regime who "advanced the goals of destabilization" of the Islamic Republic, as well as the country's largest manufacturers of steel, aluminum, copper and iron.
The United States has designated 17 Iranian metal producers and mining companies, a network of three entities based in China and Seychelles, and a vessel involved in the purchase, sale and transfer of Iranian metal products, as well as in the supply to Iranian metal producers of crucial production components, said Steven Mnuchin at a press conference.
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"We have 100% confidence (...) in the fact that economic sanctions work," he said, adding that without the American sanctions, Iran would have raised "literally tens of billions of dollars" .
"They would use this for terrorist activities throughout the region," he said. "There is no doubt that by cutting finances from the regime, we are having an impact."
These sanctions come in response to Operation "Martyr Soleimani", launched on the night of January 8-9 by Iran in retaliation for the elimination by Washington of General Qassem Soleimani in Baghdad.
According to the US Treasury, these sanctions will continue until the Iranian regime "stops funding global terrorism" and pledges never to have nuclear weapons.
With AFP
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