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| New Iran sanctions announced by US Treasury department after ballistic missile test | New Iran sanctions announced by US Treasury department after ballistic missile test |
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| The US has imposed new sanctions against Iran as President Donald Trump has sought to punish the country for testing its ballistic missile programme. | The US has imposed new sanctions against Iran as President Donald Trump has sought to punish the country for testing its ballistic missile programme. |
| The Treasury Department said in a statement that they have published a list of 13 people and 12 entities facing new sanctions. | The Treasury Department said in a statement that they have published a list of 13 people and 12 entities facing new sanctions. |
| Some of the individuals and entities involved are based in the United Arab Emirates, Lebanon and China. | |
| The restrictions are due to their contribution to the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and other accusations of terrorism and are widely seen as a consequence of the ballistic missile test in Iran last week and Mr Trump's "Muslim ban" executive order. | |
| In retaliation Iran curtailed visas for all Americans and the Central Bank refused to use the US dollar for official statistics or financial reporting. | |
| Mr Trump promised to be "tough on Iran" throughout his presidential campaign and repeatedly called the Iran nuclear deal, signed in 2015 under former President Barack Obama a "disaster". | |
| The UN has not yet determined whether the missile test, which enraged Iran's enemy and US ally Israel, has broken the 2015 accord. | |
| The US keeps a separate sanctions list that is not nuclear-related. Mr Obama imposed sanctions throughout his two terms on two dozen Iranian individuals and entities, which Mr Trump said was "weak". | |
| He had been criticised for lifting crippling internaitonal economic sanctions from Iran in 2015, which the country had lived under for decades. | |
| After the missile test, Defense Secretary Michael Flynn told reporters that the US was "putting Iran on notice". | |
| Iran’s foreign minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, said before the announcement of new US sanctions hat Iran would be "unmoved by threats". | |
| "We will never use our weapons against anyone, except in self-defense." | "We will never use our weapons against anyone, except in self-defense." |
| Ali-Akbar Velayati, the foreign adviser of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's supreme leader, predicted this week that "the US will be the final loser". | |
| "It is not for the first time that a naive person from the US poses threats to Iran," he told state media. |