has announced the imposition of new sanctions against several Iranian officials and leaders accused of carrying out repression against protesters who are walking the streets of the Arab country against the theocratic regime , in protests that have already left more than 3,400 dead.
One of the sanctioned figures is the secretary of the Supreme National Security Council, Ali Laryaniwhom the Treasury Department accuses of repressing protests against the Iranian regime. “He was one of the first Iranian leaders to urge violence in response to legitimate demands,” they have defended from Washington.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has stated that the US “strongly supports the Iranian people in their call for freedom and justice” and that “will use all tools to target those behind the regime’s tyrannical oppression of human rights.”
In this sense, from their ministerial portfolio they have criticized that the security forces “have shot at several civilians”, even going so far as to retain at least one corpse for “force the family to falsely identify him as a government martyr.” “The families of the deceased have been forced to give false testimony on national television to support the regime’s versions,” he criticized.
