Following Iran’s recent missiles attacks on military bases belonging to the United States in Iraq, President Donald Trump has authorised new sanctions against the Middle East nation.
The sanctions from Trump, which is major economic, involves the US cutting off financial support to the Iranian government.
This was revealed in an address to journalists on Friday, January 10, by the US treasury secretary, Steven Mnuchin, who was in company of Mike Pompeo, the secretary of state, CNN reports.
Mnuchin said: “We will cut off billions of dollars of support to the Iranian regime and we will continue our enforcement of other entities.”