US issues fresh Iran sanctions over alleged human rights violations

WASHINGTON: 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 Amin in police custody, target members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), Iranian prison officials “and those responsible for lethal operations overseas,” the US Treasury Department said in a statement.

Earlier in September, the United States, Britain, France and Germany announced new sanctions on Iran, formally accusing it of sending ballistic missiles to Russia. The sanctions targeted the aviation sector.