{"id":55744,"date":"2023-01-06T08:28:48","date_gmt":"2023-01-06T16:28:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=55744"},"modified":"2023-01-06T10:29:25","modified_gmt":"2023-01-06T18:29:25","slug":"new-sanctions-targeting-irans-uav-and-ballistic-missile-industries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=55744","title":{"rendered":"New Sanctions Targeting Iran\u2019s UAV and Ballistic Missile Industries"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>01\/06\/2023 11:01 AM EST<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Antony J. Blinken, Secretary of State<\/p>\n<p>The United States has\u00a0designated\u00a0seven individuals in leadership positions with Qods Aviation Industries (QAI), an Iranian defense manufacturer responsible for the design and production of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), and of Iran\u2019s Aerospace Industries Organization (AIO), the main organization responsible for overseeing Iran\u2019s ballistic missile programs.<\/p>\n<p>Today\u2019s action is pursuant to E.O. 13382 and follows our designations in September and November of individuals and entities involved in the production and transfer of Iranian Shahed<s>\u2013<\/s>\u00a0and Mohajer- series UAVs, which Moscow continues to use in its brutal attacks against Ukraine, including its critical infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>The Iranian regime\u2019s military support to Russia not only fuels the conflict in Ukraine but has also resulted in violations of UN Security Council resolution 2231 through its provision of military UAVs without advance, case-by-case approval of the UN Security Council.\u00a0 Iran has now become Russia\u2019s top military backer.\u00a0 Iran must cease its support for Russia\u2019s unprovoked war of aggression in Ukraine, and we will continue to use every tool at our disposal to disrupt and delay these transfers and impose costs on actors engaged in this activity.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>01\/06\/2023 11:01 AM EST Antony J.&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55744"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55745,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55744\/revisions\/55745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}