The United States today announced a new package of sanctions against Iran targeting “two companies and four individuals involved in malicious cyberattacks” carried out “against US companies and government entities”.

These attacks were carried out “on behalf of the cyber-electronic command of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps,” the US Treasury Department said in a statement.

Also, the Department of Justice and the FBI filed charges against the four individuals who are subject to sanctions for their role in this hacking against the United States, the Treasury Department points out.

“Malicious Iranian cybercriminals continue to target US businesses and government entities in a coordinated and multifaceted campaign aimed at destabilizing our critical infrastructure and harming our citizens,” said the US Treasury Under Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence. , Brian Nelson.

The Cyber-Electronic Command of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, “one of the Iranian government organizations behind cyber hacking, works through a series of front companies to target the United States and several other countries,” the statement said. Ministry of Finance.

According to the same ministry, the general Iranian public “must know” that this administration is “using private companies and their employees to achieve illegal goals.”

On Thursday, the United States in coordination with Britain became the first countries to tighten sanctions against Iran – following last weekend’s attack on Israel – targeting “Iran’s drone program, steel industry and car manufacturers”.

The attack launched by Iran followed Tehran’s airstrike on Israel that killed seven members of the Revolutionary Guards, the Islamic Republic’s ideological army, including two generals, in Damascus.

The European Union also intends to expand existing sanctions against Iran.

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