{"id":59049,"date":"2020-01-19T12:03:33","date_gmt":"2020-01-19T04:03:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=59049"},"modified":"2020-01-19T12:03:35","modified_gmt":"2020-01-19T04:03:35","slug":"us-imposes-sanctions-on-irans-irgc-general","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=59049","title":{"rendered":"US imposes sanctions on Iran&#8217;s IRGC general"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/gdb.rferl.org\/EB3E0984-5362-4E7F-B6B9-4A7129EBE5F0_w1023_r1_s.jpg\" alt=\"Iranian Brigadier General Hassan Shahvarpour (file photo)\"\/><figcaption>Iranian Brigadier General Hassan Shahvarpour<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>WASHINGTON, Jan 19 (NNN-Xinhua) &#8212; The US State Department said that it had imposed sanctions on a brigadier general of Iran&#8217;s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The department said in a statement that it had blacklisted Brigadier General Hassan Shahvarpour, a commander in Khuzestan province, accusing him of commanding units blamed for killing protestors in Iran in November 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Following the designation, the blacklisted individual, as well as his immediate family members, is ineligible for entry into the United States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The latest move by the US State Department came amid high tensions between Washington and Tehran following the US killing of a top Iranian military commander and Iran&#8217;s missiles attack on US military bases in Iraq. &#8212; NNN-XINHUA<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON, Jan 19 (NNN-Xinhua) &#8212; The US State Department said that it had imposed sanctions on a brigadier general of Iran&#8217;s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC). The department said in a statement that it had blacklisted Brigadier General Hassan Shahvarpour, a commander in Khuzestan province, accusing him of commanding units blamed for killing protestors in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[208,215],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59049"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59049\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}