Cruz, Other GOP Senators Urge Trump to Sanction Iranian Officials Over Internet Blackout
Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas and six other Republican senators urged President Donald Trump to impose sanctions against Iranian government officials responsible for blocking the country’s internet access for several days this month after anti-regime protests, and work to fully…
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restore that access. The Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control sanctioned Iran Minister of Information and Communications Technology Mohammad Javad Azari Jahromi last week for the blackout. Iranian “officials have also shut down access to the Internet across Iran to hide the extent and scope of their brutal crackdown from the Iranian people and the world,” Cruz et al. wrote Monday. “The White House has clearly and strongly condemned ‘the lethal force and severe communications restrictions used against demonstrators,’ and we call on you to use the full array of tools available to the administration to build on that condemnation.” Others signing were Senate GOP Conference Chairman John Barrasso of Wyoming, Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee, John Cornyn of Texas, Tom Cotton of Arkansas, Marco Rubio of Florida and Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania.