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It affected its ambassador in Baghdad and 5 entities and leaders of the Lebanese organization
The United States imposed new sanctions on Iran and Hezbollah. The sanctions affected Iran’s ambassador in Baghdad and five Iranian entities, including the Revolutionary Guard, and leaders of the Lebanese organization.
The US Treasury Department justified the sanctions against the Iranian ambassador in Baghdad, Iraj Masjedi, for his attempt to “destabilize Iraq” and for his direct association with the Iranian “Revolutionary Guard”. My mosque responded to the sanctions against it, saying that it “demonstrated the value of my goals and my actions and made me more determined,” according to the French Press Agency.
Furthermore, the ministry has punished five Iranian entities for attacking the US electoral process with “blatant attempts to sow discord among the electorate.” The five entities are the Revolutionary Guard and its elite unit for foreign operations, the Quds Force, each of which has previously been sanctioned by Washington, and an institute presented as a “propaganda tool” for the Revolutionary Guard and is called “The Declaration of your Connoisseur Custer”.
The sanctions also affected two senior Hezbollah officials, namely the members of the party’s Central Council, Nabil Qaouk and Hassan Baghdadi. The U.S. Treasury Department said in a statement that the imposition of these sanctions coincides with the proximity of the thirty-seventh anniversary of Hezbollah’s attack on the U.S. Marines in Beirut on October 23, 1983 in which 21 Marines were killed in a bombardment. massive that destroyed its headquarters in the Lebanese capital. .
For its part, Iran responded by imposing sanctions on the US ambassador to Baghdad, Matthew Toller, for his role in what his foreign ministry described in a statement as “terrorist” acts against its interests, including the assassination of Qassem Soleimani.
The sanctions included Toller’s deputy, his deputy and the US consul in Erbil, the capital of the Kurdistan region.
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