Sanctions

Why can't Treasury sanction IRG leaders like they are Myanmar leaders?

Submitted by Nick Kelly on September 28, 2007 - 2:03pm.
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I could be wrong about this, but supposedly, one of the arguments for placing the Iranian Revolutionary Guard on the State Department's list of Terrorist Organizations is so the USA can freeze their assets. Well, that's odd, because, if I understand the following story concerning the violent suppression of Myanmar activists, the Treasury Department evidently has the power to do that already:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/28/world/asia/28myanmar.html?_r=1&th&emc=th&oref=slogin

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