The United States hits Iran with new sanctions, as Secretary of State Mike Pompeo makes the case that undoing the actions of the Trump administration will be foolish and dangerous.
The Treasury and State departments announce they have targeted a leading Iranian charity and numerous of its affiliates for human rights violations. At the same time, Pompeo releases a statement titled “The Importance of Sanctions on Iran,” which argues that the Trump administration’s moves against Iran make the world safer and should not be reversed.
The sanctions announced Wednesday target Iran’s Mostazafan Foundation and roughly 160 of its subsidiaries, which are alleged to provide material support to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei for malign activities, including the suppression of dissent.
Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei addresses the nation in a televised speech marking the anniversary of the 1989 death of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the leader of the 1979 Islamic Revolution, in Tehran, Iran, June 3, 2020. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP)
“While [it] is ostensibly a charitable organization charged with providing benefits to the poor and oppressed, its holdings are expropriated from the Iranian people and are used by the Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei to enrich his office, reward his political allies, and persecute the regime’s enemies,” the Treasury says in a statement.
Also targeted was Iran’s Intelligence Minister Mahmoud Alavi, who it says “played a central role in the Iranian regime’s human rights abuses against Iranian citizens.”
— AP
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