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The U.S. im­posed sanc­tions on 10 peo­ple and firms from Iran and Venezuela over al­leged­ly con­tribut­ing to Iran’s drone trade and bal­lis­tics pro­gram which the Trump ad­min­is­tra­tion says threat­ens the U.S. and its al­lies in the Mid­dle East.

The Trea­sury De­part­ment said the lat­est mea­sures are in­tend­ed to sup­port the reim­posed Unit­ed Na­tions sanc­tions on Iran over its nu­clear pro­gram, fur­ther squeez­ing the Is­lam­ic Re­pub­lic. Iran has long in­sist­ed its nu­clear pro­gram is peace­ful.

In­clud­ed in Tues­day’s sanc­tions is a Venezue­lan firm and its chair­man, ac­cused of pur­chas­ing Iran­ian drones; three Iran­ian men con­nect­ed with ef­forts to pro­cure chem­i­cals used for bal­lis­tic mis­siles; and a group of Iran-based peo­ple and firms con­nect­ed to Rayan Fan Group, a hold­ing com­pa­ny pre­vi­ous­ly sanc­tioned by the U.S.