While the Treasury Department imposed sanctions on Iranian leaders responsible for cutting the internet and “violently suppressing” peaceful protests in the country, US Secretary of State Anthony Blake today (Thursday) vowed to hold those responsible who plan or support the deprivation of Iranians’ right to freedom of expression and peaceful assembly accountable.
According to Blinken’s tweet, “The United States supports responsibility for all those who orchestrate and encourage actions that deprive the Iranian people their right to peaceful assembly and expression.”
In response to the suspension of Internet access in Iran and the escalating brutality against peaceful protestors, the US Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) today imposed penalties on seven prominent members of the Iranian security apparatus.
Blinken: We believe that those who deny the Iranian people their right to freedom should be held accountable.
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