WASHINGTON: Biden Administration on Friday at 22 senior Myanmar officials and family members with sanctions for the government’s crackdown on democratic protests after the coup.
The action was accompanied by the elimination of sanctions on three Iranian industry executives who were punished by Trump’s Administration to support Iranian ballistic missile programs.
Treasury announced the move to seven members of Myanmar military and 15 couples and adult children from officials who had been subject to sanctions as part of the US response to the February coup and subsequent violence against demonstrators in the country, also known as Burma.
Military suppression of democracy and a brutal violence campaign against the Burmese people cannot be accepted, he said.
The United States will continue to force a cost increase in the Burmese military and promote accountability for those responsible for the ongoing military and violence coup, including targeting sources of income for the military and its leaders.
Among the officials targeted are Information Minister Naing, Minister of Investment and Foreign Economic Relations Aung Naing OO, Minister of Labor, Immigration and Myint Population Kyaying, Minister of Social Welfare, Relief and Resettlement of Thet Khine and Three Members of Thet Khine and Three Members The council founded by the military after the coup.
Sanctions freeze whatever assets they or the company they have may be in US jurisdictions and American bars do business with them.
Treasury does not offer an explanation for the appointment of sanctions in the three Iranians, but administrative officials have said similar transfers only based on the target no longer meet the penalty criteria and not related to indirect negotiations about the saving of the 2015 Iranian nuclear agreement, which former President Donald Trump resigned Self from 2018.
Iran Behzad Daniel Ferdows, Behzad Daniel Ferdows and Mohammed Reza Dezfulian _ approved by the Trump administration in September 2020 for their work with the Mammut industry group, Mammut Diesel, which treasury said at that time was “ main producers and suppliers military goods, double-double use for Iranian missile programs.
“Also Friday, Treasury issued the latest rules that revoked trump sanctions against prosecutors and staff.
The rules, which will apply on July 6 after the publication in the federal list, completes the revocation of President Joe Biden from the Trump authorization to impose sanctions on ICC officials involved in the investigation of war crimes to US citizens.
The authority was the basis for the former State Secretary Mike Pompeo hit the ICC prosecutor who is now the Top Prosecutor and Ajudan with sanctions.
Current State Secretary Antony Blinken has revoked the sanctions immediately after the announcement of the Biden and the publication of the final rules is mainly the size of the Graha Tata.
Although the United States continues to operate with an ICC jurisdiction statement through non-state personnel such as the United States and its allies absent their approval or references by the UN Security Council, the threat and imposition of financial sanctions on ICC, their personnel, and those who help it are not an effective strategy or Right to overcome the worries of the United States with ICC, said Treasury.