Trump announced he would sign an executive order 'imposing hard-hitting sanctions on the Supreme Leader of Iran and the office of the Supreme Leader of Iran and many others'
President Donald Trump on Monday leveled a spate of new sanctions against top Iranian leaders, intensifying the administration's punishing economic penalties on Tehran following a week of escalating tensions that nearly produced an American military strike against the Islamic Republic.
The president said the new U.S. sanctions “will deny the Supreme Leader and the Supreme Leader's office and those closely affiliated with him and the office access to key financial resources," and added that the measures "represent a strong and proportionate response to Iran's increasingly provocative actions."
Addressing reporters following Trump's remarks, Mnuchin said the sanctions targeting the Supreme Leader's office will "lock up literally billions of dollars more of assets." He also announced sanctions against three more senior Iranian military commanders and five naval districts' leaders. “China gets 91% of its Oil from the Straight, Japan 62%, & many other countries likewise. So why are we protecting the shipping lanes for other countries for zero compensation,” Trump“All of these countries should be protecting their own ships on what has always been … a dangerous journey,” Trump. “We don’t even need to be there in that the U.S.
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