Disrupting Iran’s Transnational Ballistic Missile and UAV Procurement Networks in Help of UN Sanctions on Iran

The United States is at present sanctioning 32 entities and people based mostly in Iran, China,  Hong Kong, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Türkiye, India, and different jurisdictions that function a number of procurement networks supporting Iran’s ballistic missile and unmanned aerial car (UAV) manufacturing, together with on behalf of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).

Today’s motion helps the September 27 reimposition of United Nations sanctions and restrictive measures on Iran in response to Iran’s “significant non-performance” of its nuclear commitments.  These UN sanctions immediately handle the threats posed by Iran’s nuclear, ballistic missile, typical arms, and destabilizing actions.  We name upon all UN Member States to implement their reimposed UN obligations, together with sanctions to curtail Iran’s harmful proliferation actions just like the networks being sanctioned at present. Specifically, 4 United Nations Security Council resolutions 1737, 1747, 1803, and 1929 require UN Member States to forestall the switch of to Iran of things and know-how used within the manufacturing of ballistic missiles and in addition to the switch of things on the UN Register of Conventional Arms.

This motion can be in furtherance of President Trump’s National Security Presidential Memorandum-2 to counter Iran’s aggressive improvement of missiles and different uneven and traditional weapons capabilities and deny the IRGC entry to belongings and assets that maintain their destabilizing actions.

The United States will proceed to make use of all obtainable means, together with sanctions on entities based mostly in third international locations, to show, disrupt, and counter Iran’s procurement of kit and objects for its ballistic missile and UAV applications, which jeopardize regional safety and worldwide stability.

The Department of Treasury’s motion was taken pursuant to Executive Order (E.O.) 13382, which targets proliferators of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) and their supporters, and E.O. 13224, as amended, which targets terrorist teams and their supporters.   For extra info on at present’s actions, please see the Department of the Treasury’s press release.