Iran says reserves right to respond in kind to US, UK claims against IRGC

Iran says it reserves the right to take an action to respond in kind to the “unacceptable” approach taken by the United States and Britain after they announced a raft of new sanctions targeting the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) and representatives of the Palestinian resistance groups in Tehran.

Britain on Thursday said it had adopted fresh sanctions against head of the IRGC’s Quds Force Brigadier General Esmail Qa’ani, five IRGC forces, Khaled Qadoumi, representative of Hamas in Iran; Nasser Abu Sharif, representative of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad in Iran and the Palestinian branch of the Quds Force.

British Foreign Secretary David Cameron said the travel bans and asset freezes were coordinated with Washington.

The US, which had already put sanctions on the seven individuals targeted by London, blacklisted one more person, Majid Zarei, whom it claimed supported the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas and Lebanon’s Hezbollah resistance movement.