Official: Iran to Sanction U.S. Individuals, Entities
TEHRAN -- Iran will impose sanctions and sue American individuals involved in terrorist activities, cyber sabotage, human rights violations, and other actions detrimental to Iranians and the Islamic Republic’s national security, a senior official says.
The initiative is being coordinated by the Foreign Ministry’s Department of Legal and International Affairs, in collaboration with relevant agencies and the Secretariat of the Supreme National Security Council (SNSC), Deputy Foreign Minister for Legal and International Affairs, Kazem Gharibabadi wrote on X.
Iran will draw up a comprehensive list of American individuals involved in hostile activities against it, the official noted.
Gharibabadi said the United States, with its extensive history of interfering in the internal affairs of countries worldwide, has periodically imposed sanctions on Iranian citizens under programs.
The Americans, he said, “seem to have forgotten that whenever there is talk of terror, sabotage, interference in internal affairs, threats, and sanctions, the name of the United States is prominently mentioned.”
The diplomat was referring to the U.S. assassinations of senior regional counterterrorism commanders, including Iran’s
former top anti-terror military official General Qassem Soleimani, as well as high-ranking resistance officials, who used to lead the fight against Israeli terrorism and occupation throughout the region.
His remarks also addressed Washington’s de-listing of the anti-Iran terrorist cult of Mujahedin Khalq Organization (MKO), which is responsible for killing some 17,000 Iranian civilians and officials since the victory of the country’s historic 1979 Islamic Revolution.