New US Sanctions against Iranian Regime appear to be appropriately targeted and not indiscriminate.

For all of it's problems with megacultists in its Congress, it is excellent to see the #USA using some subtlety and inventiveness in foreign policy. Recent responses to the actions of Islamic megacultists have been hearteningly fast for a huge administrative apparatus. It's important that the US names the Iranian morality police in the matter of Mahsa Amini's murder. This is what one would, and should, expect from a properly secular first world nation.

Left Vs right partisan politics in the US, and the stereotypical view of the US as global actor notwithstanding (in relation to Palestine, for example: this position can only be endorsed by any civilised progressive thinker.

It's also heartening to see that the US administration's grasp on the Rushdie affair is sophisticated and nuanced as well as appropriate:

OFAC is designating 15 Khordad Foundation pursuant to Executive Order 13224, as amended, for having materially assisted, sponsored, or provided financial, material, or technological support for, or goods or services to or in support of, an act of terrorism.

(Source: https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/jy1059 )

Washington, D.C. – The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) took action today against the 15 Khordad Foundation, an Iran-based foundation that has issued a multi-million-dollar bounty for the killing of prominent Indian-born, British-American author Salman Rushdie. Since Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini’s order pronouncing a death sentence on Rushdie in February 1989, 15 Khordad Foundation has committed millions of dollars to anyone willing to carry out this heinous act. Since putting its bounty on Rushdie, the 15 Khordad Foundation, which is affiliated with the Supreme Leader, has raised the reward for targeting the author.

“The United States will not waver in its determination to stand up to threats posed by Iranian authorities against the universal rights of freedom of expression, freedom of religion or belief, and freedom of the press,” said Under Secretary of the Treasury for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence Brian E. Nelson. “This act of violence, which has been praised by the Iranian regime, is appalling. We all hope for Salman Rushdie’s speedy recovery following the attack on his life.” (Emphasis added)

(Source: https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/jy1059 )