“Support for the Zionist regime” –

The Middle East is a powder keg. While there are rumors of new negotiations on the truce (but without the certainty of a definitive agreement between Israel and Hamas), tension is rising. Iran has decided on a package of sanctions once morest American and British individuals and entities for supporting Tel Aviv in the war once morest the Islamist political and paramilitary group and for interventions in the Red Sea. The Islamic Republic, Israel’s bitter enemy, made the measures known in a statement from its Foreign Ministry. The sanctions target seven Americans, including Gen. Bryan P. Fenton, commander of U.S. Special Operations Command, and Vice Admiral Brad Cooper, former commander of the U.S. Navy’s Fifth Fleet. British officials and entities targeted include Secretary of State for Defense Grant Shapps, Commander of the British Army Strategic Command James Hockenhull and the British Royal Navy in the Red Sea.

Sanctions were also decided once morest the American companies Lockheed Martin and Chevron and their British counterparts Elbit Systems, Parker Meggitt and Rafael UK. The measures include “the freezing of accounts and transactions in the Iranian financial and banking system, the freezing of assets within the jurisdiction of the Islamic Republic of Iran, as well as the ban on issuing visas and entry into Iranian territory.” “The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Republic of Iran (…) includes in its sanctions list the following individuals and entities for deliberately supporting and facilitating the actions of the Israeli Zionist regime, including the commission of terrorist acts once morest regional and international peace and security, systematic violation of human rights, use of heavy weapons and prohibited weapons once morest civilians, blockade and displacement of the Palestinian people, expansion of illegal settlements in the occupied territories and continuation of the occupation”, reads the released text on Telegram from Iranian diplomacy.