WASHINGTON: The United States will blacklist Iran's Foreign Minister
Mohammad Javad Zarif and block "billions" more in Iranian assets as part of expanded sanctions, US Treasury Secretary
Steven Mnuchin said Monday.
Mnuchin told reporters Zarif would be added to an economic sanctions list "later this week," adding that eight top military commanders from
Iran's Revolutionary Guards have now also been blacklisted.
The Treasury Department's announcement came as President
Donald Trump authorized sanctions on Iran's supreme leader
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.