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| The Trump administration is imposing sanctions on Iran following its recent ballistic missile test. | The Trump administration is imposing sanctions on Iran following its recent ballistic missile test. |
| The US Treasury Department announced the measures against 13 people and a dozen companies on Friday. | The US Treasury Department announced the measures against 13 people and a dozen companies on Friday. |
| President Donald Trump tweeted earlier: "Iran is playing with fire - they don't appreciate how 'kind' President Obama was to them. Not me!" | President Donald Trump tweeted earlier: "Iran is playing with fire - they don't appreciate how 'kind' President Obama was to them. Not me!" |
| But Iran has said it will not yield to "useless" American threats from "an inexperienced person". | But Iran has said it will not yield to "useless" American threats from "an inexperienced person". |
| Some of the newly sanctioned groups are based in the United Arab Emirates, Lebanon and China, and include members of the Islamic Republic's Revolutionary Guards Corps. | |
| The measures come a day after President Trump said "nothing is off the table" in dealing with Iran. | |
| And this week, the US national security adviser, Michael Flynn, the administration was putting Iran "on notice" for its medium-range missile test. | |
| The White House said the launch had violated a UN Security Council resolution proscribing missiles that could carry a nuclear device. | |
| But Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif tweeted on Friday that the Islamic Republic was unmoved by US threats. | |
| He said Iran had no intention of using its military against any country, except in self-defence. | |
| "Will never initiate war, but we can only rely on our own means of defence," Mr Zarif wrote. | |
| On Thursday, a bipartisan group of more than a dozen US senators wrote to Mr Trump, urging "full enforcement of existing sanctions and the imposition of additional sanctions on Iran for its ballistic missile program". | |
| "Iranian leaders must feel sufficient pressure to cease deeply destabilising activities, from sponsoring terrorist groups to continued testing of ballistic missiles," the group wrote. | |
| The Republican Speaker of the House of Representatives, Paul Ryan, applauded Mr Trump on his administration's "swift and decisive response", in a statement on Twitter. | |
| Oil prices rose Friday morning, as markets factored in the announcement. | |
| Saudi Arabia's senior military advisor, Brigadier General Ahmed al Assiri, meanwhile told the BBC it is time to change Iran's behaviour in the region. | |
| Speaking in the Saudi capital Riyadh, he said Tehran's involvement in neighbouring countries such as Iraq, Syria, and Yemen must be stopped. | |
| Gen Assiri, who advises the Saudi defence minister, said Iran must be "brought back to its borders". | |
| Iran - long an arch-foe of Saudi Arabia, says its presence across the region is always at the request of the governments. |