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New US Sanctions - Freeze Iranian Assets
Softwar
10/25/2007 8:54:17 AM
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The Bush administration is imposing new sanctions against Iran aimed at the Revolutionary Guard Corps and the Quds Force that Washington has accused of stirring up trouble in Iraq and elsewhere, U.S. officials said Thursday.
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson were to announce the new steps, aimed at quelling Iran's nuclear ambitions, at a news conference at the State Department later Thursday morning, said the officials who declined to be identified publicly.
Rice told a House committee Wednesday that the administration shares Congress' goal of making sanctions tougher on Iran. She also declared that activities in Iraq by the Quds Force "are inconsistent with the Iranian government's obligations and stated commitment to support the Iraqi government."
The officials confirmed the looming sanctions only on grounds of anonymity because the official announcement was still pending.
Rice and Paulson were ready to outline sanctions that would be the toughest the United States has levied against Tehran since the 1979 takeover of the U.S. Embassy there, said one official. The story was reported by The Washington Post in its Thursday editions.
The New York Times quoted a senior government official as saying the United States "will be freezing assets and there will be ripple effects of where we can go from there. This is going to be a broad and wide-ranging effort."
All the officials spoke on condition of anonymity in advance of formal announcement of the new sanctions.
The Post said the Revolutionary Guard will be designated as a proliferator of weapons of mass destruction and the Quds Force as a supporter of terrorism, the Post reported.
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