US sanctions 9 in Iran supreme chief's inside circle for 'repression, torture, terrorism' 

The U.S. Treasury introduced Monday that it had sanctioned 9 Iranians who’re amongst supreme chief Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's inside circle for "advancing Iran's radical agenda," a transfer that seeks to dam funds to those that "oppressed the Iranian individuals, exported terrorism and superior destabilizing insurance policies around the globe."

The sanctions had been handed down Monday and coincided with the fortieth anniversary of the seizure of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran by pupil militants and the start of the Iran hostage disaster which lasted 444 days.

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"At the moment the Treasury Division is concentrating on the unelected officers who encompass Iran‡s Supreme Chief, Ayatollah Khamenei, and implement his destabilizing insurance policies," Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin stated in a press release. "These people are linked to a variety of malign behaviors by the regime, together with bombings of the U.S. Marine Barracks in Beirut in 1983 and the Argentine Israelite Mutual Affiliation in 1994, in addition to torture, extrajudicial killings and repression of civilians."

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"This motion additional constricts the Supreme Chief‡s means to execute his agenda of terror and oppression," Mnuchin added.

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The sanctioned people are Ebrahim Raisi, head of Iran's judiciary; Mojtaba Khamenei, the supreme chief's second son; Mohammad Mohammadi Golpayegani, Khamenei's chief of employees; Vahid Haghanian, a former navy commander who is taken into account the supreme chief's "proper hand;" Khamenei's senior advisor Ali Akbar Velayati; advisor Gholam-Ali Hadad-Adel; Iran's Armed Forces Common Employees (AFGS) Chief Mohammad Bagheri; Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Brig. Gen. Hossein Dehghan; IRGC Commander Gholam Ali Rashid; and the whole AFGS employees, in accordance with the treasury.

"This motion seeks to dam funds from flowing to a shadow community of Ali Khamenei‡s navy and overseas affairs advisors," the Treasury Division stated.

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The State Division's most up-to-date Nation Stories on Terrorism, launched Friday, acknowledged that Iran continues to be the "world's worst state sponsor of terrorism," spending practically $1 billion per yr to assist terror teams together with Hezbollah, Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad.

Iran additionally plots its personal terrorist acts across the globe, the division stated.

On Tuesday, Iran's Atomic Power Group introduced it will start injecting uranium into 1,044 centrifuges, one other violation of the 2015 nuclear deal. Tehran stated it now operates 60 superior centrifuges — twice as many as allowed underneath the accord.

Fox Information' Cody Derespina and The Related Press contributed to this report.