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US Imposes Cyber, Drone Sanctions in Fresh Bid to Squeeze Iran
The US imposed a raft of sanctions targeting Iran’s ballistic-missile and drone programs as well as its ability to wage cyber warfare against the US. The Treasury Department sanctioned four Iran and Hong Kong-based entities that are part of what it called a covert procurement network for Iran’s missile and drone programs. In a separate action, it targeted six officials with the cyber command of the country’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps. Treasury linked the drone and missile sanctions to recent attacks by Iran-backed groups on US forces in the Middle East. Those strikes included an attack last weekend ... (full story)