European Union foreign ministers agreed to sanction an Iranian-owned bank based in Hamburg that the U.S. says has been at the center of Tehran's efforts to expand its nuclear program, European officials said.
The decision Monday to freeze banking activity at the European-Iranian Trade Bank came as part of a broader effort by the EU to sharpen its sanctions against Iran.
In addition to imposing strict controls on EIH, as the bank is known under its German acronym, the EU ministers agreed to sanction more than 100 people and entities with suspected ties to Iran's nuclear program, including the Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Line and Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, according to a European Commission spokeswoman. The full list of designated entities and individuals will be published Tuesday, the spokeswoman said.
A person who answered the phone at the Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Line, declined to comment. A spokesman for the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, could not be reached.
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Comment: Ah, the obscenely materialistic joys of being a psychopath protected by other psychopaths and sheep-dipped so many times that no one knows anymore which "side" you're on. Let's be perfectly clear about what this author did not have the guts to say but which everyone knows: the ISI is the CIA. Headley was working for the psychopaths in power against humans everywhere, first sent on one errand, then another, in order to recruit susceptible, angry young Muslims and to make the war on terror seem real.