Sign up now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com Register DUBAI, April 9 (Reuters) – Iran announced on Saturday that it had imposed sanctions on 24 more Americans, including former Army Chief of Staff George Casey and former President Donald Trump’s lawyer, Rudy Joe for the revival of the 2015 nuclear deal have stopped. . Nearly all of those named were officials who served during the Trump administration, which imposed sanctions on Iranian officials, politicians and companies and withdrew the United States from Iran’s nuclear deal with world powers. In a statement released by the local media, the Iranian Foreign Ministry accused the Americans of sanctions – including many businessmen and politicians – of supporting “terrorist groups and terrorist acts” against Iran and “repressive actions” by Israel in area and against the Palestinians. . Sign up now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com Register Eleven months of indirect talks between Iran and the United States in Vienna to salvage the 2015 agreement have stalled, with both sides saying political decisions are needed from Tehran and Washington to resolve the remaining issues. Sanctions allow Iranian authorities to seize any assets held by individuals in Iran, but the apparent absence of such assets means the move is likely to be symbolic. General Austin Scott Miller, the former commander of US forces in Afghanistan, former US Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross and several former ambassadors are among the officials targeted by the new Iranian sanctions. In a similar move announced in January, Iran imposed sanctions on 51 Americans, many of them from the US military, for the 2020 assassination of General Qassem Suleimani in a drone strike in Iraq. read more Last year, he imposed sanctions on Trump and several senior US officials. Sign up now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com Register Report by Dubai Newsroom Editing by Jason Neely and Helen Popper Our role models: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.
