It's unclear how big of an impact new sanctions on Iran will have on the specific military leaders targeted, EamonJavers reports.
President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday imposing "hard-hitting" new sanctions on Iran in response to the downing of an unmanned U.S. drone last week.
"We do not seek conflict with Iran or any other country," Trump added. "I can only tell you we cannot ever let Iran have a nuclear weapon." Tensions between the U.S. and Iran have grown since May 2018, when Trump pulled the U.S. out of the multilateral Iran nuclear deal that had been brokered during the Obama administration. Some sanctions that had been lifted under that dealTensions ratcheted up in recent weeks, following attacks on oil tankers near the Strait of Hormuz that the U.S. alleges were executed by Iran. Iran denies that it carried out the attacks.
Shortly after Trump signed the order Monday, Mnuchin said some of the Iranian sanctions had been in the works before the drone was shot down. Iran's Foreign Minister, Javad Zarif, would be sanctioned later this week, he said."We've literally locked up tens and tens of billions of dollars," Mnuchin said in the White House briefing room. "These sanctions are highly effective.
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