IRAN/TREASURY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A U.S. Treasury Department official said Washington would roll out more sanctions on Iran later this month as part of a preview of the U.S. strategy toward that country following the decision by President Donald Trump not to re-certify Iran’s compliance with a nuclear agreement.
As part of the new Iran policy, Treasury will use its executive authority to place additional sanctions on the Iranian government, targeting its financing of terrorism and other destabilizing activity, said Sigal Mandelker, undersecretary of Treasury for terrorism and financial intelligence, in a speech on Tuesday to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee in Washington. Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control, which oversees and maintains U.S. sanctions policy, has imposed sanctions on 72 targets connected to the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, the country’s ballistic missile program, its support for terrorism and human rights abuses, she said, noting that OFAC blacklisted the IRGC last week under its counter-terrorism powers.”
-Samuel Rubenfeld, “U.S. Treasury Official Previews Iran Policy, Forecasts Further Sanctions,” The Wall Street Journal online, Oct. 18, 2017 09:00am