MICHAEL R. POMPEO, SECRETARY OF STATE On November 10, 2020 the Department of the Treasury designated an international network of six companies and four individuals for facilitating the procurement of sensitive goods, including U.S.-origin electronic components, for Iran Communications Industries (ICI). ICI is a sanctioned Iranian military firm and a subsidiary of Iran Electronics Industries, which falls under Iran’s Ministry of ...
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By U.S. Embassy Tbilisi | 11 November, 2020 | Topics: Human Rights, Key Officials, News | Tags: Iran, Sanctions
MICHAEL R. POMPEO, SECRETARY OF STATE The international community has long recognized that the Iranian regime uses the Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines (IRISL) to transport proliferation-sensitive items intended for Iran’s ballistic missile and military programs. A provision of UN Security Council Resolution 1929 mandates vigilance when doing business with IRISL and entities owned or controlled by IRISL under certain ...
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By U.S. Embassy Tbilisi | 19 October, 2020 | Topics: Key Officials, News, News from Washington | Tags: China, Iran, Sanctions
MICHAEL R. POMPEO, SECRETARY OF STATE Today, the United States is identifying the Iranian financial sector as subject to the terms of Executive Order (E.O.) 13902 and sanctioning 18 major Iranian banks, further depriving the Islamic Republic of Iran of funds to carry out its support for terrorist activities and nuclear extortion that threatens the world. These sanctions will take effect ...
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By U.S. Embassy Tbilisi | 8 October, 2020 | Topics: Key Officials, News, News from Washington | Tags: COVID-19, Global Health, Humanitarian Aid, Iran, Sanctions
The United States is imposing additional sanctions against Syrian business and military officials who enable the Bashar al-Assad regime’s brutal crimes, including killings in countless Syrian communities. U.S. Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo announced the new sanctions September 30, following the three-year anniversary of the killing of at least 34 Syrians in the town ...
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By U.S. Embassy Tbilisi | 6 October, 2020 | Topics: History, Human Rights, Key Officials, News | Tags: corruption, Sanctions, Syria
MICHAEL R. POMPEO, SECRETARY OF STATE Three years ago yesterday, on September 29, 2017, Assad regime forces, backed by Russia, killed at least 34 Syrians in the town of Armanaz. Since then, thousands of Bashar al-Assad’s bombs have been dropped on schools, hospitals, and markets across Syria. Too many lives have been lost in Assad’s futile search for a military conquest over his own ...
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By U.S. Embassy Tbilisi | 30 September, 2020 | Topics: Key Officials, News, News from Washington | Tags: Office of the Spokesperson, Sanctions, Syria, The Secretary of State
“Our message is very, very simple: the United States will never allow the world’s largest state sponsor of terrorism to freely buy and sell planes, tanks, missiles, and other kinds of conventional weapons. These UN sanctions will continue the arms embargo.” – Secretary Pompeo, August 20, 2020. “When we’ve seen any country violate our current sanctions, the ...
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By U.S. Embassy Tbilisi | 21 September, 2020 | Topics: News | Tags: Iran, Nuclear Nonproliferation, Office of the Spokesperson, Sanctions, The Secretary of State
It was hoped that the Iran nuclear deal would “moderate” the world’s leading sponsor of terrorism, but that didn’t happen. Instead, in the two years and 10 months before President Trump pulled the United States from the agreement on May 8, 2018, Iran’s leaders used revenues from the deal to
increase the regime’s military spending and terrorist financing . “During this nuclear deal ...
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By U.S. Embassy Tbilisi | 21 September, 2020 | Topics: History, Human Rights, News | Tags: international security, Iran, Sanctions, Terrorism
MICHAEL R. POMPEO, SECRETARY OF STATE The Trump Administration has always understood that the greatest threat to peace in the Middle East comes from Islamic Republic of Iran, whose violent efforts to spread revolution have killed thousands and upended the lives of millions of innocent people. History shows appeasement only emboldens such regimes. Thus today, the United States welcomes the return ...
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By U.S. Embassy Tbilisi | 19 September, 2020 | Topics: Key Officials, News | Tags: Iran, Nuclear Nonproliferation, Office of the Spokesperson, Sanctions, The Secretary of State, United Nations
MS ORTAGUS: Thank you so much and good afternoon, everybody. I know we’re having this call right after we did the press conference with the Secretary and we have another briefing later today, so apologies that we’re piling all of you up today. We’re going to try to allow for as much time as possible for ...
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By U.S. Embassy Tbilisi | 16 September, 2020 | Topics: Key Officials, News, News from Washington | Tags: and Labor, Arms Control, Bureau of Democracy, Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs, Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs, corruption, Democracy, Division for Counter Threat Finance and Sanctions, elections, Human Rights, Iran, Office of the Spokesperson, Sanctions, Special Representative for Iran, Special Representative for Venezuela, venezuela
Construction firms owned by the People’s Republic of China are harming the environment and threatening the economies and sovereignty of nations worldwide. China Communications Construction Company (CCCC) is advancing the PRC’s military expansion into the South China Sea through large-scale dredging, construction and militarization of artificial islands and disputed outposts. Further, CCCC drives Beijing’s “One ...
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By U.S. Embassy Tbilisi | 10 September, 2020 | Topics: Human Rights, News | Tags: China, development assistance, economic development, Sanctions, Secretary Pompeo
The United States has imposed sanctions on senior Iranian officials responsible for continuing the regime’s long-standing persecution of religious minorities. Iran’s constitution states that it protects the equal rights of “all people of Iran.” Yet since 1979 the regime has systematically harassed, arrested and executed members of religious minorities, the U.S. Commission on International Religious ...
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By U.S. Embassy Tbilisi | 9 September, 2020 | Topics: History, Human Rights, News | Tags: freedom of religion, Iran, Sanctions
MICHAEL R. POMPEO, SECRETARY OF STATE Today, the Department of State imposed sanctions on five entities under section 3(a)(ii) of Executive Order (E.O.) 13846 for knowingly engaging in a significant transaction for the purchase, acquisition, sale, transport, or marketing of petroleum or petroleum products from Iran. The Department of State also imposed sanctions under section 5(a)(vii) of E.O. 13846 on three ...
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By U.S. Embassy Tbilisi | 3 September, 2020 | Topics: Key Officials, News, News from Washington | Tags: Iran, Office of the Spokesperson, Oil, Petroleum, Sanctions, Terrorism, The Secretary of State
Today, the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation, the Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control, and the Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security are issuing an advisory on North Korea’s ballistic missile procurement activities. The advisory identifies key procurement entities and deceptive techniques used by North ...
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By U.S. Embassy Tbilisi | 1 September, 2020 | Topics: News | Tags: international security, North Korea, Nuclear Nonproliferation, Office of the Spokesperson, Sanctions
The U.S. is taking action against the Iranian regime’s weapons programs to stop it from spreading violence across the Middle East and beyond. U.S. Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo recently announced new sanctions blocking trade with Iran in certain metals that support the regime’s weapons programs. The U.S. has also moved to extend the ...
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By U.S. Embassy Tbilisi | 31 August, 2020 | Topics: News, News from Washington | Tags: international security, Iran, Sanctions, Terrorism, United Nations
The U.S. is restoring U.N. sanctions against the Islamic Republic of Iran to ensure the regime cannot buy and sell advanced weapons systems or build a nuclear bomb. U.S. Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo announced the move at the United Nations on August 20 and called for international support in addressing the Iranian regime’s ...
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By U.S. Embassy Tbilisi | 24 August, 2020 | Topics: News | Tags: Iran, Sanctions, Secretary Pompeo, United Nations
FACT SHEET
OFFICE OF THE SPOKESPERSON “Today, I expanded the scope of Iran metals sanctions targeting Iran’s nuclear, military, and ballistic missile programs. Knowingly transferring any of these 22 metals to Iran is now sanctionable. Our pressure will continue until Iran behaves like a normal nation.” –Secretary Pompeo, Tweet, July 30, 2020 STATEMENT BY SECRETARY POMPEO ON THE EXPANSION ...
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By U.S. Embassy Tbilisi | 31 July, 2020 | Topics: News from Washington | Tags: Arms Control, Human Rights, Iran, Sanctions
PRESS STATEMENT
MICHAEL R. POMPEO, SECRETARY OF STATE Iran’s nuclear, ballistic missile, and military programs pose a grave threat to international peace and security. To address these threats, I am announcing a major expansion of the scope of State Department-administered Iran metals-related sanctions. Today, the State Department is identifying 22 specific materials used in connection with Iran’s nuclear, military, or ballistic ...
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By U.S. Embassy Tbilisi | 30 July, 2020 | Topics: Key Officials, News from Washington | Tags: Iran, Sanctions, Secretary Pompeo
PRESS STATEMENT
MICHAEL R. POMPEO, SECRETARY OF STATE The United States welcomes today’s announcement from the European Union’s High Representative Josep Borrell regarding the body’s first designations under its cyber sanctions framework. The United States and the EU share a vision for an open, interoperable, reliable and secure cyberspace, and for responsible behavior on the international stage. Destructive, disruptive, or otherwise ...
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By U.S. Embassy Tbilisi | 30 July, 2020 | Topics: Key Officials, News from Washington | Tags: Europe, Sanctions
MICHAEL R. POMPEO, SECRETARY OF STATE Today, the State Department and Treasury Department continued the United States’ sanctions campaign against the Assad regime by releasing 14 new designations under the Caesar Syria Civilian Protection Act and other authorities. This campaign began last month with the first round of Caesar Act designations. We have named today’s tranche of designations the Hama and Maarat Al-Numan sanctions. These names are meant to ...
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By U.S. Embassy Tbilisi | 29 July, 2020 | Topics: News from Washington | Tags: Human Rights, Sanctions, Syria
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Leigh Hartman – Jul 27, 2020 The U.S. has imposed sanctions against senior Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officials responsible for “horrific and systematic abuses” against members of Muslim minority groups in Xinjiang.
The July 9 sanctions , issued by the U.S. departments of Treasury and State, target Chen Quanguo, the party’s secretary in Xinjiang, who oversees
internment camps where more than 1 ...
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By U.S. Embassy Tbilisi | 27 July, 2020 | Topics: Human Rights, News from Washington | Tags: China, freedom of religion, Sanctions, Secretary Pompeo, Uyghurs
Why the U.N. must extend the Iran arms embargo (July 15) The U.N. arms embargo against Iran should not be lifted. If the embargo expires in October, as currently scheduled, Iran’s regime could import tanks and fighter planes to threaten its neighbors. Without the restriction, Iran will become the arms dealer of choice for rogue ...
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By U.S. Embassy Tbilisi | 15 July, 2020 | Topics: News | Tags: Iran, Sanctions
The United States Designates Company Providing Services for Iranian Airline Mahan Air’s Operations in China (May 19) The People’s Republic of China is one of the rapidly dwindling number of countries that welcomes Mahan Air, which ferries weapons and terrorists around the world for the Islamic Republic of Iran. Such cooperation has consequences. Today, ...
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By U.S. Embassy Tbilisi | 19 May, 2020 | Topics: Key Officials, News, News from Washington | Tags: China, Iran, Sanctions, venezuela
United States Publishes a Global Maritime Advisory to Counter Sanctions Evasion by Iran, North Korea, and Syria (May 14) The U.S. Department of State, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), and the U.S. Coast Guard issued a global advisory to alert the maritime industry, and those active in ...
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By U.S. Embassy Tbilisi | 14 May, 2020 | Topics: News, News from Washington | Tags: Iran, Maritime Matters, North Korea, Office of the Spokesperson, Sanctions, Syria
Briefing With Coordinator for Counterterrorism Ambassador Nathan A. Sales On the United States Designation of the Russian Imperial Movement And its Leaders as Global Terrorists (April 6) MS ORTAGUS: Good morning, and thanks for joining this briefing. Today, the State Department has announced the designation of Russian Imperial Movement, or RIM, and members of ...
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By U.S. Embassy Tbilisi | 6 April, 2020 | Topics: Key Officials, News, News from Washington | Tags: Bureau of Counterterrorism, Russia, Sanctions
The State Department Imposes Sanctions on Individual Responsible for the Violence in Northern Syria (March 17) PRESS STATEMENT
MICHAEL R. POMPEO, SECRETARY OF STATE Today, the United States is designating a senior Assad regime official who is responsible for the violence and the disastrous humanitarian crisis in northern Syria. The Department of State is imposing sanctions under Executive Order 13894 on ...
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By U.S. Embassy Tbilisi | 17 March, 2020 | Topics: Key Documents, Key Officials, News, News from Washington | Tags: Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs, Division for Counter Threat Finance and Sanctions, Sanctions, Secretary Pompeo, Syria, The Secretary of State
New Sanctions under the Iran, North Korea, and Syria Nonproliferation Act (INKSNA) (February 25) PRESS STATEMENT
MICHAEL R. POMPEO, SECRETARY OF STATE The United States is sanctioning 13 foreign entities and individuals in China, Iraq, Russia, and Turkey pursuant to the Iran, North Korea, and Syria Nonproliferation Act (INKSNA). This action includes new sanctions against five entities/individuals in China (Luo Dingwen, ...
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By U.S. Embassy Tbilisi | 25 February, 2020 | Topics: Key Officials, News, News from Washington | Tags: Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs, Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs, Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation, Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs, China, Division for Counter Threat Finance and Sanctions, Iran, Nonproliferation, North Korea, Office of the Spokesperson, Russia, Sanctions, Syria, The Secretary of State, Turkey, Weapons
FACT SHEET: Actions in Response to Russian Malicious Cyber Activity and Harassment (December 29) Today, President Obama authorized a number of actions in response to the Russian government’s aggressive harassment of U.S. officials and cyber operations aimed at the U.S. election in 2016. Russia’s cyber activities were intended to influence the election, erode faith ...
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By U.S. Embassy Tbilisi | 30 December, 2016 | Topics: News, News from Washington, Press Releases | Tags: Russia, Sanctions
