Trump says new Iran sanctions already in effect, without elaborating

US President Donald Trump says his administration has imposed new sanctions on Iran following missile strikes on bases housing US troops in Iraq that resulted in no American or Iraqi deaths.

“It’s already been done. We’ve increased them. They were very severe, but now it’s increased substantially,” Trump says, without offering any specifics.

Trump had promised the “additional punishing sanctions” in an address to the nation yesterday in retaliation for the attack — seen by experts as a measured first response by Tehran to the killing of Iran’s top General, Qassem Soleimani, in an American drone strike in Baghdad.

— AFP