White House announces new sanctions on Iran following attack against Israel: ‘The pressure will proceed’

White House National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan launched an announcement Tuesday saying that new sanctions will be positioned against Iran within the wake of the regime’s assaults against Israel final weekend.

The new sanctions come amid Republican criticism of the Biden administration for purportedly not being robust sufficient on Iran, after the White House prolonged a waiver that allowed Iran to entry to $10 billion of beforehand escrowed funds in November 2023.

In a press launch, Sullivan introduced that President Biden is “coordinating with allies and partners, including the G7, and with bipartisan leaders in Congress, on a comprehensive response.”

“In the coming days, the United States will impose new sanctions targeting Iran, including its missile and drone program as well as new sanctions against entities supporting the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and Iran’s Defense Ministry,” the assertion learn. 

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White House nationwide safety adviser Jake Sullivan speaks throughout a press briefing on the White House in Washington, Monday, March 18, 2024.  (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

“In addition, we continue to work through the Department of Defense and U.S. Central Command to further strengthen and expand the successful integration of air and missile defense and early warning systems across the Middle East to further erode the effectiveness of Iran’s missile and UAV capabilities.”

Sullivan stated that the actions the U.S. is taking will “continue a steady drumbeat of pressure to contain and degrade Iran’s military capacity and effectiveness and confront the full range of its problematic behaviors.”

“Over the last three years, in addition to missile and drone-related sanctions, the United States has sanctioned over 600 individuals and entities connected to terrorism, terrorist financing and other forms of illicit trade, horrific human rights abuses, and support for proxy terrorist groups, including Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis, and Kataib Hezbollah,” the assertion added.

“The pressure will continue. We will not hesitate to continue to take action, in coordination with allies and partners around the world, and with Congress, to hold the Iranian government accountable for its malicious and destabilizing actions.”

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Republicans have criticized the Biden administration for purportedly not being robust sufficient on Iran, explicit after a controversial waiver extension. (Photo by Probst/ullstein bild through Getty Images,Photo by NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP through Getty Images)

The Biden administration has been closely criticized by Republicans over its therapy of Iran over the previous three years. In addition to the November 2023 waiver extension, the White House additionally unlocked $6 billion in sanctions reduction for Iran as a part of a prisoner swap deal in September 2023 – mere weeks earlier than the October 7 assaults. 

“Under President Trump, Iran was broke,” Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., stated on X Saturday. “President Biden gifted them billions of {dollars} after which naively stated ‘don’t.’”

“‘Don’t’ is not a foreign policy. Joe Biden’s policies have funded Iran’s attack on Israel,” Blackburn continued.

In October, White House National Security Communications Advisor John Kirby maintained to Fox News that the Iranian regime has had no entry to any of the unfrozen funds.

“It’s not that we’re not enforcing sanctions. We have been enforcing them. As a matter of fact, we’ve added sanctions. We’ve sanctioned 400 entities in Iran just in the beginning of this administration, let alone the sanctions that came before us,” Kirby defined.

Iranian pro-government supporters maintain an enormous Palestine flag at Palestine Square in Tehran, on April 14, 2024, in a celebration of the early morning Iran’s IRGC attack on Israel. (Photo by Hossein Beris / Middle East Images / Middle East Images through AFP)

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“As for the fungibility, again, that money was never going to be tapped by the Iranian regime,” he continued. “They were never going to see it themselves. It was always going to go to vendors that we approved to go to buy humanitarian assistance and medical and food… directly to the Iranian people. The regime was never going to see that or feel that, and they haven’t asked for it.”