Treasury Department to impose sanctions on Iran after Israel attack

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Treasury Department to impose sanctions on Iran after ******* *******

US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen attends a press conference at US Ambassador’s residence in Beijing on April 8, 2024. 

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U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen is preparing new sanctions on Iran after the country launched hundreds of drones and missiles at ******* over the weekend.

“Treasury will not hesitate to work with our allies to use our sanctions authority to continue disrupting the Iranian regime’s malign and destabilizing activity,” Yellen said in remarks ahead of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank’s

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this week. “The ******* by Iran and its proxies underscores the importance of Treasury’s work to use our economic tools to counter Iran’s malign activity.”

Yellen’s comments come as *******’s war cabinet is weighing how to respond to the *******, which Iran launched in retaliation for an ******** strike on an Iranian consulate in Syria earlier this month. ******* said it intercepted 99% of the more than 300 projectiles from Iran.

The U.S. has imposed hundreds of

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on Iran and its proxies in recent years for their connections to terrorism and for the country’s missile program.

“From this weekend’s ******* to the Houthi attacks in the Red Sea, Iran’s actions threaten the region’s stability and could cause economic spillovers,” Yellen said.

CORRECTION: This article has been updated to correct that Yellen’s comments were from remarks ahead of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank’s Spring Meetings this week.

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