The Treasury Department lasers in on Iran’s Basij

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Announcing new sanctions on an element of the hardliner-base of the Iranian regime on Tuesday, the Trump administration has leveled another blow against Iran’s revolutionary aggression.

And this time around, the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control has done a better job in outlining what the sanctions actually entail and what they actually mean. This is important not for reasons of public education per se, but rather as a crystallizing tool by which the U.S. can draw the international community’s attention towards Iranian malevolence.

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