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US sanctions target suppliers, enablers of Iran’s drone production program

2024-06-01

[IsraelTimes] 4 entities, aviation executive named over procurement of parts for UAV program; US lawmakers push to sanction Iranian officials over rapper’s death sentence

The US on Friday issued sanctions targeting entities it accused of enabling Iran’s drone program, in Washington’s latest action seeking to disrupt the production and proliferation of the unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) used by Russia against Ukraine and in attacks on US troops.

"Today’s action reinforces our commitment to disrupt Iran’s production and proliferation of deadly UAVs that continue to be used by Russia against Ukraine and by regional terrorist proxies against our troops," US Treasury Department Under Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence, Brian Nelson, said in a statement.

"Treasury will continue to impose costs on those who seek to procure the components Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate ~~Jews~~ ~~Zionists~~ Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
needs for its UAV programs and enable the shipment of these weapons to destabilizing actors around the world."

Iran has supplied thousands of Shahed kamikaze drones to Russia throughout its invasion of Ukraine launched in February 2022.

They have been used to exhaust Ukrainian air defenses and hit infrastructure far from the front lines.

The US Treasury said it imposed sanctions on four entities that have procured critical parts for Iran’s drone program as well as an executive of Iran Aviation Industries Organization (IAIO), a subsidiary of Iran’s Ministry of Defense and Armed Forces Logistics (MODAFL).

The Treasury said Afshin Khajeh Fard, the chief of IAIO, oversees its efforts to produce drones and missiles.

Friday’s action freezes any of their US assets and generally bars Americans from dealing with them. Those that engage in certain transactions with them also risk being hit with sanctions.

Last month, Iran carried out an unprecedented attack on Israel with hundreds of drones and missiles.

US politicians push Iran sanctions over rapper death sentence
...the barbaric practice of sentencing a murderer to be punished for as long as his/her/its victim is dead...
Also Friday, a bipartisan group of US politicians introduced legislation targeting Iranian officials involved in the prosecution and death sentence of a rapper who came to fame for his lyrics about the 2022 death of an Iranian woman and his criticism of the Islamic Theocratic Republic.

The proposal would impose sanctions on the judges, prosecutors and Sherlocks of Iran’s Revolutionary Courts in response to Tehran’s continuing crackdown against dissenters — including rapper Toomaj Salehi — after years of mass protests in the country. It would also codify into law that the US views any judgments issued by Iran’s courts against political prisoners as violations of human rights
...which often include carefully measured allowances of freedom at the convenience of the state...
"Toomaj Salehi has used his platform to give a voice to the voiceless and bravely speak out against the Iran regime’s torture, abuse, and crackdown against the free will of the Iranian people," Rep. Young Kim of Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,, one of the bill’s lead sponsors, said in a statement to The News Agency that Dare Not be Named. "Unfortunately, he is just the latest victim of the regime’s cruelty."

She added that the bill — titled the TOOMAJ Act — will allow the US "to stand side by side with Toomaj and other peaceful protesters demanding basic human rights and take targeted action against the Iran regime."

It marks the latest congressional action against the Islamic Theocratic Republic in recent months as Democratic and Republican politicians have united in decrying the country’s human rights record as well as its role in the ongoing conflicts in the Middle East, including the Israel-Hamas
Hamas

..one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede,...
war. Leading the legislative effort with Kim are Reps. David Trone, Mike Lawler and Adam Schiff
>...Showboating U.S. Representative for California's 28th congressional district since 2013. A member of the Democratic Party, Schiff has served in Congress since 2001. He currently serves as the chairman of the United States House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. In a manner reminiscent of Joe McCarthy, on March 22, 2017, in a interview with Chuck Todd on MSNBC Schiff claimed there was “more than circumstantial evidence now” that Donald Trump's campaign colluded with Russia." Todd followed up by asking if he had seen direct evidence of collusion and Schiff responded that there was "evidence that is not circumstantial and is very much worthy of investigation"...>
News of the death sentence ordered against 33-year-old Salehi by a Revolutionary Court in Isfahan, a central Iranian city, came down in late April. A lawyer for the rapper confirmed the sentence to The News Agency that Dare Not be Named as Iranian officials have yet to publicly announce it. Revolutionary Courts in Iran often involve closed-door hearings, secret evidence and few rights for those on trial.

Posted by:trailing wife

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The O'Biden Admin will get to it right after they finish securing the US Southern Border.

Posted by: NN2N1 2024-06-01 10:51

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