The US Treasury announced new sanctions against Iran.
The General Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces came under restrictive measures.
In addition, nine names appear on the sanctions list. One of them – Mujtaba Khamenei born in 1969 – may belong to the son of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
In 2015, Iran and the international Six (Russia, USA, France, Germany, Great Britain and China) reached a Joint Comprehensive Action Plan. The deal called for the lifting of sanctions against Tehran in response to a limitation of the Iranian nuclear program.
However, in 2018, President Donald Trump announced a unilateral withdrawal from the agreement and the restoration of stringent sanctions against Iran.