The US government of Joe Biden, which wants to return to the Iran nuclear deal, announced its first sanctions on Iranian officials on Tuesday, in the name of defending human rights.
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Concretely, these are minor measures: two members of the Revolutionary Guards, the ideological army of the Islamic Republic of Iran, are banned from entering the United States for their role in the harsh interrogations of detainees.
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Today at the Human Rights Council in Geneva, we clearly expressed our concern about the abuses for which the Iranian government continues to be responsible towards its fellow citizens, including the unjust detention of far too many people in deplorable conditions
, ”US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in a statement.
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We will continue to consider all appropriate means to hold those responsible for human rights abuses and violations in Iran to account
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The Biden administration has promised to return to the 2015 Iran nuclear deal from which former President Donald Trump had withdrawn the United States, if Tehran also respects its commitments in this area.
For this, the new American government will have to lift the economic sanctions lifted under this agreement, but reinstated in 2018. On the other hand, it pledged to continue to put pressure on Iran on other subjects, including human rights. humans.
