Today, the United States is imposing sanctions on four individuals and three entities supporting weapons procurement on behalf of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC). Despite good faith efforts by the United States to implement the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), Iran has continued to threaten freedom of navigation in the Strait of Hormuz, including through attacking commercial vessels. These sanctions will disrupt the overseas procurement efforts and financial networks that sustain the IRGC's weapons capabilities.
Today's action reinforces renewed UN Security Council resolutions, including resolutions 1747 (2007) and 1929 (2010), which restrict Iran's proliferation-related activities. Iran's weapons procurement, as well as any supply, sale, or transfer of such items by UN Member States to Iran, is prohibited by these resolutions.
The United States will continue to deny the IRGC and the Iranian government access to resources that sustain their destabilizing activities. We will use all available tools to expose, disrupt, and counter those activities and prevent Iran from reconstituting its proliferation-sensitive programs.
The Department of the Treasury's action was taken pursuant to E.O. 13382, which targets weapons of mass destruction proliferators and their supporters, and builds on the United States' May 8 and June 10
