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2022-04-02 Syria-Lebanon-Iran
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US targets Iran missile program with sanctions after strikes on regional rivals
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From a few days ago. [IsraelTimes] Announcement comes a day after Blinken’s meeting with Abu Dhabi crown prince, two days after call with Saudi FM as US seeks to calm their frustrations over lack of support.
The United States on Wednesday announced sanctions against Iranian defense companies after a spate of ballistic missile attacks on targets in Iraq, Saudi Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Fifteen of the nineteen WTC hijackers were Saudis, and most major jihadi commanders were Saudis, to include Osama bin Laden. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman quietly folded that tent in 2016, doing terrible things to the guys running it, and has since been dragging the kingdom into the current century...
and the United Arab Emirates
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The US and Iran’s neighbors blame Tehran for a March 13 strike on Erbil, Iraq, and for repeated missile strikes into Saudi Arabia and the UAE by Iranian-backed Iran's Houthi sock puppets
...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth . Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him...
rebels in Yemen
...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of...
On Friday, a Houthi missile strike set ablaze a Saudi Aramco oil storage site, prompting warnings from angry Saudi leaders that the attacks threatened the stability of the world oil market.
Even as the US carries out indirect negotiations with Iran
 ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites....
to revive limits on Iran’s nuclear program, it will keep up penalties against those involved in Iran’s ballistic missile production, Treasury Undersecretary Brian Nelson said in announcing the sanctions.
"We will also work with other partners in the region to hold Iran accountable for its actions, including gross violations of the illusory sovereignty of its neighbors," Nelson said in a statement.
The move "reinforces" Washington’s commitment to prevent Iran from developing ballistic missiles, he added.
The US Treasury Department said the sanctions target an Iran-based procurement agent — Mohammad Ali Hosseini — and his companies, which helped acquire propellant-related materials for the missile research program of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC); an Iranian defense company; and an Iranian intermediary who also helped in the development of missile propellant.
The sanctions were authorized under an existing executive order targeting producers and supporters of weapons of mass destruction. The penalties allow the US to block the assets of the sanctioned people and entities, and to prosecute others who do business with them.
The announcement came a day after US Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed in Rabat and two days after the top US diplomat spoke on the phone with Saudi Foreign Minister Faisal bin Farhan — both part of US efforts to calm Emirati and Saudi frustration over what they feel has been a lack of support from the Biden administration, the guys that caused the debacle in Afghanistan
...the collection of boodlers, grifters, hangers-on, and self-proclaimed experts affiliated with the Biden Crime Family. Entrusted with an entire nation as the result of a suspicious election, they set about happily implementing stuff they absorbed in college, all of which blew up and splattered the rest of us...
amid the Houthi attacks.
Both Gulf states have pressed the US to put the Houthis back on the State Department’s list of Foreign Terror Organizations, which Biden has said he’s weighing against concerns of the impact such a move would have on the humanitarian situation in Yemen.
Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates have been at war against Iranian-backed Houthi fighters who have seized much of northern Yemen. The IRGC grabbed credit for the March 13 strike on Erbil, and alleged it was targeting an Israeli strategic center there.
The sanctions were announced as the US and Iran are nearing an agreement on a joint return to compliance with the 2015 nuclear deal officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) after nearly a year of intermittent negotiations in Vienna.
The agreement that traded sanctions relief for curbs on Iran’s nuclear program fell apart in 2018 when then-president Donald Trump
...Perhaps no man has ever had as much fun being president of the US...
withdrew and Tehran began accelerating its enrichment activities, in violation of the JCPOA.
While the sides have acknowledged significant progress in recent weeks, an Iranian demand that the US delist the IRGC is believed to be a final sticking point. 
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