Iran warns it is about to target Americans engaged in 'terror, sabotage' with sanctions, legal measures

A senior Iranian diplomat has announced plans by the country to impose sanctions and pursue legal actions against American individuals involved in terrorist activities, cyber sabotage, human rights violations, and other actions detrimental to Iranians and the Islamic Republic’s national security.

The initiative is being coordinated by the Foreign Ministry's Department of Legal and International Affairs, in collaboration with relevant agencies and the Secretariat of the Supreme National Security Council (SNSC), Deputy Foreign Minister for Legal and International Affairs, Kazem Gharibabadi wrote in a post on X, former Twitter, on Tuesday.

He emphasized that the effort was benefiting from existing legislation, such as the "Law on Countering Human Rights Violations and Adventurous and Terrorist Actions of the United States in the [West Asia] Region" and the "Law on Counteracting the Declaration of [Iran’s] Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) as a ‘Terrorist Organization’ by the United States."

The drive is aimed at drawing up a comprehensive list of American individuals involved in these hostile activities, the official noted.

The objective, he said, is to sanction these individuals and initiate appropriate legal proceedings against them.

The remarks came amid incessant adversarial measures on the part of the United States against Iranian entities and individuals.

Also on Tuesday, it was reported that the US State Department’s so-called "Rewards for Justice" program had recently offered a sum of up to $15 million for alleged information contributing to Washington’s attempts at targeting the IRGC.

The United States has designated the Corps as a “terrorist organization” amid the force’s extensive successful efforts at ensnaring the individuals and busting the groups enlisted by the US and the Israeli regime, Washington’s closest regional ally, that have been trying to sow insecurity and resort to sedition across the Islamic Republic.

The designation that took place in 2019 also came in the face of the IRGC’s instrumental role across several regional countries in fighting back and vanquishing foreign-backed Takfiri terrorist and militant outfits.

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Washington has been using the presence of these groups and their remnants as a means of trying to justify its bloated regional military presence and interference.

Gharibabadi highlighted that the United States, with its extensive history of interfering in the internal affairs of countries worldwide, had periodically imposed sanctions on Iranian citizens under programs like the so-called "Rewards for Justice."

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Tehran strongly condemns the fresh US sanctions targeting its oil trade as a clear sign of Washington’s continued hostility toward Iranian people.

He, however, added, “They (the Americans) seem to have forgotten that whenever there is talk of terror, sabotage, interference in internal affairs, threats, and sanctions, the name of the United States is prominently mentioned.”

The diplomat was referring to the US’s assassinations of senior regional counterterrorism commanders, including Iran’s former top anti-terror military official, General Qassem Soleimani, as well as high-ranking resistance officials, who used to lead the fight against Israeli terrorism and occupation throughout the region.

His remarks also addressed Washington’s de-listing of the anti-Iran terrorist cult of Mujahedin-e-Khalq Organization (MKO), which is responsible for killing some 17,000 Iranian civilians and officials since the victory of the country’s historic 1979 Islamic Revolution.

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