Iranian security forces on motorcycles surround opposition protesters during clashes in Tehran in 2009.
Posted on 02/16/2012 6:40:10 PM PST by SunkenCiv
The U.S. Treasury Department has slapped sanctions on Iran's main intelligence organization, accusing it of supporting terrorist groups, committing human rights abuses, and backing the Syrian government's lethal crackdown on its citizens.
The new measures prohibit U.S. citizens from engaging in any transactions with the Iranian Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS) and block any property interests that the MOIS has in the United States. All members of the organization are also barred from travel to the United States.
U.S. Under Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence David Cohen said in a statement on February 16 that the MOIS supports "terrorist groups including Al-Qaeda, Al-Qaeda in Iraq, Hizbullah, and Hamas -- again exposing the extent of Iran's sponsorship of terrorism as a matter of Iranian state policy."
The statement said the ministry has coordinated "the movement of Al-Qaeda operatives in Iran and provided them with documents, identification cards, and passports."
It accuses the ministry of funneling money and weapons to Al-Qaeda's Iraqi branch and of negotiating the release of terrorist operatives.
Cohen also said the ministry "exports its vicious practices" to Iranian ally Syria, supporting the brutal government crackdown against the opposition that has reportedly left more than 6,000 dead.
Latest In List Of Punitive Measures
The Treasury statement also cites the MOIS's general use of "abhorrent methods of interrogation, such as mock executions and forms of sexual violence," and its targeting of members of the Baha'i faith.
The sanctions are the latest in a growing list of punitive measures enacted by the United States over Iran's terrorist activities and rights transgressions.
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Iranian security forces on motorcycles surround opposition protesters during clashes in Tehran in 2009.
Wow, sanctions, that’s heavy man.
If it was up to me their bodies would be found floating
in a benjo ditch somewhere. We are going to rue the
day we started down this weak and pitiful road.
Many Americans will pay the full price of this folly.
To Iran and Syria its meaningless. They are still getting funding abroad.
http://news.google.com/news/section?q=iran&hl=en&pz=1&cf=all&ned=us&js=0
http://news.google.com/news/section?q=syria&hl=en&pz=1&cf=all&ned=us&js=0
So Americans aren’t allowed to buy anything from the Iranian Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS)? LOL! That’ll stop the Iranians from building nukes! Our elite constituents and their politicians are hilarious.
just now we’re getting a round to this??????
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