The United States has imposed sanctions on a number of senior Iranian officials over their role in violently suppressing mass protests, serious human rights abuses and censorship.
The Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned four senior officials of the Law Enforcement Forces of Iran (LEF) and Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), the primary Iranian security forces responsible for the regime's brutal suppression of the protests that broke out in September 2022 following the death of Mahsa Jina Amini while in the custody of Iran's Morality Police.
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by Joji Xavier
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