Washington 0
15 April 2019

On the day that the U.S. designation of the IRGC as a Foreign Terrorist Organization came into effect, Secretary Pompeo indicated that sanctions enforcement would be pursued "vigorously". Describing U.S. efforts "to convince Iran it's not in their best interests to continue to foment terror and engage in malign activity", Pompeo noted "one of the pieces of that is our sanctions effort. We have lots of efforts apart from that". 

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