New Iran Missile Program Sanctions Not Enough

Earlier today, the Biden administration issued sanctions on the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’s ballistic-missile production. The Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control issued a statement saying it had sanctioned “an Iran-based procurement agent and his network of companies that procured ballistic missile propellant-related materials” for the IRGC. The move is one of the Biden administration’s first signs of resistance to the Islamic Republic’s destabilizing behavior after a slew of capitulatory concessions throughout the ongoing nuclear negotiations.

The Treasury’s new sanctions target “Iranian procurement agent” Mohammad Ali Hoseini and the companies that supplied him with ballistic-missile inputs. The sanctions have been issued under Executive Order (E.O.) 13382, which “blocks the property of specially designated WMD proliferators and members of their support networks.”

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Earlier today, the Biden administration issued sanctions on the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’s ballistic-missile production. The Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control issued a statement saying it had sanctioned “an Iran-based procurement agent and his network of companies that procured ballistic missile propellant-related materials” for the IRGC. The move is one of the Biden administration’s first signs of resistance to the Islamic Republic’s destabilizing behavior after a slew of capitulatory concessions throughout the ongoing nuclear negotiations.

The Treasury’s new sanctions target “Iranian procurement agent” Mohammad Ali Hoseini and the companies that supplied him with ballistic-missile inputs. The sanctions have been issued under Executive Order (E.O.) 13382, which “blocks the property of specially designated WMD proliferators and members of their support networks.”