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Our actions make it harder and costlier at every turn for Iran to continue its destabilizing behavior,
Yellen said in a statement Following Iran’s unprecedented air attack against Israel, President Biden is coordinating with allies and partners, including the G7, and with bipartisan leaders in Congress, on a comprehensive response. In the coming days, the United States will impose new sanctions targeting Iran, including its missile and drone program as well as new sanctions against entities supporting the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and Iran’s Defense Ministry,
Sullivan said in a statement The pressure will continue. We will not hesitate to continue to take action, in coordination with allies and partners around the world, and with Congress, to hold the Iranian government accountable for its malicious and destabilizing actions.”
In addition, ... we continue to work through the Department of Defense and US Central Command to further strengthen and expand the successful integration of air and missile defense and early warning systems across the Middle East to further erode the effectiveness of Iran’s missile and UAV capabilities.”
It's not that we're not enforcing sanctions. We have been enforcing them. As a matter of fact, we've added sanctions. We've sanctioned 400 entities in Iran just in the beginning of this administration, let alone the sanctions that came before us,
'Don’t' is not a foreign policy. Joe Biden’s policies have funded Iran’s attack on Israel,
As for the fungibility, again, that money was never going to be tapped by the Iranian regime,
Over the last three years, in addition to missile and drone-related sanctions, the United States has sanctioned over 600 individuals and entities connected to terrorism, terrorist financing and other forms of illicit trade, horrific human rights abuses, and support for proxy terrorist groups, including Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis, and Kataib Hezbollah,
U.S. sanctions on Iran are arguably the most extensive and comprehensive set of sanctions that the United States maintains on any country,
We have to be realistic that from a U.S. perspective, while there are always more sanctions you can impose, we are in a world of diminishing actual economic pressure because we have so many sanctions already in place,
With respect to sanctions, I fully expect that we will take additional sanctions action against Iran in the coming days,
Yellen said told a news conference on the sidelines of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank spring meetings in Washington We don't preview our sanctions tools. But in discussions I've had, all options to disrupt terrorist financing of Iran continue to be on the table,
We're going to have conversations with all major suppliers around the world. That includes countries in the G7; that includes China. All of these countries have to play a role in constraining Iran's ability to get access to the goods they are using to build weapons,
From this weekend's attack to the Houthi attacks in the Red Sea, Iran's actions threaten the region's stability and could cause economic spillovers,
Treasury will not hesitate to work with our allies to use our sanctions authority to continue disrupting the Iranian regime's malign and destabilizing activity,
Yellen said in remarks ahead of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank's Spring Meetings this week It is incumbent on all of us here at these meetings to do everything in our power to end this suffering,