The Trump administration hit Iran with new
sanctions Friday following the test-firing of a medium-range ballistic
missile, an action the White House says is in defiance of a U.N.
resolution.
"Iran's continued support for terrorism and
development of its ballistic missile program poses a threat to the
region, to our partners worldwide, and to the United States," said John
E. Smith, acting director of the Treasury Department's Office of Foreign
Assets Control.
The sanctions targeted three networks comprising
13 people and a dozen entities including a group affiliated with the
Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps working with the terrorist group
Hezbollah. The Trump administration maintains that none of these
designations violate the Iran nuclear deal.
"Iran has a choice to make. We are going to
continue to respond to their behavior in an ongoing way at an
appropriate level to continue to pressure them to change their
behavior," a senior administration official told NBC News.
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