Iran has imposed a ban on more than 50 U.S. military officials for killing General Kashem Solaimani. Tehran announced on Saturday that it had imposed the ban on the killing of a top general of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards’ Quds Force in a drone strike near Baghdad International Airport in Iraq in 2020.
The list includes US military officials, including Mark Millie, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Robert O’Brien, a former White House national security adviser.
The State Department says 51 U.S. military officials have been targeted for human rights abuses. As a result of the embargo, US officials in Iran will be able to seize any assets held by Iranian authorities.
However, the sanctions are being considered as a symbolic measure because US officials in Iran do not have the resources. A year ago, Tehran imposed similar sanctions on then-US President Donald Trump and several other senior US officials for alleged involvement in crimes against humanity.
In 2016, Donald Trump withdrew the United States from the Iran nuclear deal signed with the world powers in 2015. Following the withdrawal, the Trump administration imposed strict sanctions on dozens of Iranian officials, politicians, and companies. Indirect talks between the United States and Iran have recently begun in Vienna to revive that dying nuclear deal but the Biden administration still wasn’t able to revive the deal.
