{"id":12808,"date":"2023-06-02T04:53:55","date_gmt":"2023-06-02T09:53:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=12808"},"modified":"2023-06-02T04:54:01","modified_gmt":"2023-06-02T09:54:01","slug":"us-sanctions-members-of-irans-irgc-alleged-affiliates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=12808","title":{"rendered":"US sanctions members of Iran\u2019s IRGC, alleged affiliates"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>The United States has imposed new sanctions on members of Iran&#8217;s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) as well as individuals and entities it claims to be affiliates of the country&#8217;s&nbsp;elite military force.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The sanctions announced on Thursday targeted two senior officials of the IRGC&#8217;s Intelligence Organization as well as three individuals based in Iran and Turkey and a Turkish company which the US Treasury claimed were all&nbsp;linked to the IRGC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The sanctions were claimed to be a response to IRGC\u2019s involvement in external lethal operations against civilians, including journalists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The IRGC, which is an integral part of the Iranian military, has been blacklisted in its entirety by the US.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, Washington announced sanctions on members of the military force from time to time to increase pressure on the force.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Iran has rejected allegations against the IRGC as futile attempts to undermine the rise and prominence of the force in Iran and in the region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The US sanctions announced on Thursday targeted IRGC\u2019s Intelligence Organization&#8217;s chief Reza Seraj as well as Rouhallah Bazghandi, the former chief of the Organization&#8217;s counterespionage department.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Turkish-based airline, Rey Havacilik Ithalat Ihracat Sanayi Ve, was also placed under sanctions because of what the Treasury said was the company\u2019s assistance to IRGC Quds Force&#8217;s covert operations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2023\/06\/01\/704535\/US-Treasury-sanctions-Iran-IRGC\">Presstv<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States has imposed new sanctions on members of Iran&#8217;s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) as well as individuals and entities it claims to be affiliates of the country&#8217;s&nbsp;elite military force. The sanctions announced on Thursday targeted two senior officials of the IRGC&#8217;s Intelligence Organization as well as three individuals based in Iran and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":12809,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[7765,1615,2089,1227],"class_list":["post-12808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-affiliated-agencies","tag-iran","tag-sanctions","tag-washington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12808"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12810,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12808\/revisions\/12810"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}