ALBAWABA - US National Security Advisor, Jake Sullivan, revealed that The US government is working on an additional set of sanctions against Iran in reaction to Tehran's aerial attack on Israel over the weekend.
According to Israel, Iran launched several hundred missiles and kamikaze drones late Saturday, and the Israeli military claims to have intercepted the majority of them. Iran, on the other hand, claims to have successfully struck many military facilities.
In a statement released on Tuesday, Sullivan said President Joe Biden has been working with US lawmakers and other allies to put together a "comprehensive response" to Iran's attack.
"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.
During a news briefing at the International Monetary Fund and World Bank spring meetings in Washington DC on the same day, US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen revealed that the Biden administration was likely to "take additional sanctions action against Iran in the coming days".
She went on to say that, despite existing US sanctions, "Iran is continuing to export some oil," and that "there may be more that we could do" in this regard.
Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz has called on allies to impose punitive measures on the Islamic Republic. In a post on X (formerly Twitter), Katz wrote that he had sent letters to 32 nations and had spoken to "dozens of foreign ministers and leading figures around the world, calling for sanctions to be imposed on the Iranian missile project and that the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps be declared a terrorist organization".
