US slaps sanctions on Iranian, Chinese targets over Tehran's missile, military programs | Reuters
The United States imposed sanctions on Tuesday on more than a dozen people and entities in China, Hong Kong and Iran, including Iran's defense attache in Beijing, over accusations they helped procure parts and technology for key actors in Iran's ballistic missile development.
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WASHINGTON, June 6 (Reuters) - The United States imposed sanctions on Tuesday on more than a dozen people and entities in China, Hong Kong and Iran, including Iran's defense attache in Beijing, over accusations they helped procure parts and technology for key actors in Iran's ballistic missile development.
Earlier on Tuesday, the official IRNA news agency reported Iran had presented what officials described as its first domestically made hypersonic ballistic missile, an announcement likely to heighten Western concerns about Tehran's missile capabilities.
"The United States will continue to target illicit transnational procurement networks that covertly support Iran's ballistic missile production and other military programs," Treasury Under Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence, Brian Nelson, said in a statement.
Washington has imposed extensive sanctions on Iran over the years, including over its nuclear and ballistic missile programs and accusations of human rights abuse.
The Treasury statement accused Iran's defense attache in Beijing, Davoud Damghani, of coordinating military-related procurements from China for Iranian end-users, including subsidiaries of Iran's Ministry of Defense and Armed Forces Logistics (MODAFL).
Washington targeted centrifuge sales to Parchin Chemical Industries (PCI), dual-use metals sales to its intermediary, P.B. Sadr, and MODAFL's electronics procurement in Tuesday's action, according to the statement. Both PCI and P.B. Sadr were previously hit with sanctions by the United States.
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Bascially China helped Iran develop a missile that can avoid western defense systems.
The world is going to miss the old order.
I miss Eisenhower, is that old enough?
How does sanctioning our largest trading partner actually work? Aren't we running to China because of a shortage of cancer drugs?
Seems like rebuilding our own manufacturing and industrial sectors might be more effective than political theater.
I'm 'sure' america's M&I sectors, capitalist patriots one and all, are feverishly working at it.