NEW US SANCTIONS BLACKLIST IRAN'S IRGC
According
to an opinion piece on the Forbes website, as the New US Sanctions
Blacklist Iran's IRGC, Iranian dissident writer Heshmat Alavi, wrote on
24 July, The U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill Tuesday placing
new sanctions on Iran, North Korea and Russia. This follows a similar
version adopted overwhelmingly by the Senate in a 98-2 vote last month.
Alavi
writes:The House resolution, however, faced a more peculiar road even
riddled with obstacles. Fortunately, the overwhelming 419 to three vote
in favor of this bill, the bipartisan Countering Adversarial Nations
Through Sanctions Act (H.R.3364)
has made it veto proof. Despite the fact of alterations made in the
initial text, all glitches have been set aside to gain White House
consent.
He
added:“The Revolutionary Guards (IRGC), not just the IRGC Quds Force,
is responsible for implementing Iran’s international program of
destabilizing activities, support for acts of international terrorism
and ballistic missiles,” the House Resolution text reads in part.
This
development is a devastating blow to Tehran and a major success for the
Iranian opposition National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI).
I welcome the US House of Reps’ new sanctions and terrorist designation of #IRGC as essential to rectifying the policy of appeasement pic.twitter.com/hfSzmwT3Pz
— Maryam Rajavi (@Maryam_Rajavi) July 25, 2017
Calls
for regime change in Iran and support for the NCRI have been gaining
unprecedented weight in Washington, leaving Iran’s mullahs utterly
terrified.
Iran
has been found “threatening U.S. national security and undermining
global stability with a range of aggressive acts” through ballistic
missile tests, supporting terrorist organizations and meddling in the
internal affairs of other states. The House bill is calling for
political and economic measures to place Iran before accountability.
This resolution can fundamentally be considered the blacklisting of Iran’s IRGC as the criteria imposes mirroring restrictions, and at times goes even further.
The
IRGC will be placed on the list of Specially Designated Global
Terrorists following these procedures becoming law and US President
Donald Trump taking the engagements necessary. The following is a list
of the actions stated in this House resolution:
- All assets and property in the US belonging to IRGC-linked individuals and entities will be frozen.
- No American individual or entity has the right to establish financial, business, services or other affiliations with any individuals directly or indirectly associated to the IRGC.
- No American individual or entity has the right to violate these sanctions through intermediaries or bypassing these procedures.
- All individuals and entities having any relations with the IRGC must be sanctioned. Considering the fact that the IRGC officially enjoy a variety of connections and associations, this will effectively be paralyzing for Iran. One such example is the IRGC Khatam al-Anbiya group that is currently cooperating with more than 2,500 economic firms. All these companies will be sanctioned, rendering any relations with them illegal.
- As these measures place the IRGC under secondary banking sanctions, practically no financial institution will be permitted to provide direct and/or indirect banking services to IRGC-linked individuals and entities. No foreign bank will cooperate with any Iranian entity that is in any way related to the IRGC and/or its affiliated entities.
These sweeping arrangements follow the NCRI’s annual convention held
on July 1st in Paris this year with senior American figures such as
former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani and former House Speaker Newt
Gingrich calling for even more drastic moves against Iran
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