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Almost all the officials named served during Trump's
administration which imposed sanctions on Iranian officials,
politicians and companies and withdrew the United States from
the Tehran's nuclear deal with world powers.
In a statement carried by local media, the Iranian foreign
ministry accused the U.S. officials of supporting “terrorist
groups and terrorist acts” against Iran, and Israel’s
“repressive acts” in the region and against the Palestinian
people.
Eleven months of indirect talks between Iran and the United
States in Vienna on salvaging the deal have stalled as both
sides say political decisions are required by Tehran and
Washington to settle the remaining issues.
Gen. Austin Scott Miller, former commander of U.S. forces in
Afghanistan, former U.S. Commerce Secretary 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 U.S. military, over the
2020 killing of General Qassem Soleimani in a drone strike in
Iraq.
Last year, it imposed sanctions on Trump and several senior U.S.
officials.
(dubai.newsroom@thomsonreuters.com; editing by Jason Neely)
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