The United States imposed fresh sanctions on five members of Iran's elite Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) over their alleged efforts to provide missile support to Yemen's Houthis, the Treasury Department said in a statement on Tuesday.
The new sanctions targeted IRGC officers Mehdi Azarpisheh, Mohammad Agha Jafari, Mahmoud Kazemabad, Javad Amin and Sayyed Mohammad Tehrani, the statement added.
The move is the latest salvo by the Trump administration aimed at Iran since President Donald Trump pulled the U.S. out of a landmark nuclear agreement on May 8.
Earlier, the EU executive said it "launched the formal process to activate the Blocking Statute by updating the list of US sanctions on Iran falling within its scope."
The European Union is trying to find ways to keep Iran in the 2015 accord by safeguarding the economic benefits of the nuclear deal after US President Donald Trump abruptly pulled out of the deal.
The "blocking statute" is a 1996 regulation originally created to get around Washington's trade embargo on Cuba.
EU officials say they are revamping the blocking statute to encompass Trump's May 8 decision to revive Iran-related sanctions.
