Iran added 61 US citizens to the sanctions list, including former senior officials in the period of Donald Trump as president like Mike Pompeo.

The Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs on July 16 put US citizens on the blacklist on the grounds that these individuals supported Mujahide-E-Khalq (MEK), with an anti-Iran government stance and is operating in exile.

The sanctioning order stipulates that the Iran Government authority has the right to confiscate the property of individuals named within the territory of this country.

Mike Pompeo spoke in Washington on human rights issues in Iran in December 2019, while holding the position of US Secretary of State.

The Iranian government considers Mek to be a terrorist organization, a plot to overthrow the Islamic Republic in this country.

Former US Secretary of State Pompeo, former National Security Advisor Bolton and Lawyer Giuliani have repeatedly attended events organized by Mek and publicly supported the group.

The Iranian government in January applied a sanctioning order to 51 US citizens, including a number of former officials.

The Donald Trump administration in 2018 unilaterally withdrew from the Iranian nuclear agreement signed in 2015 with the participation of the five countries of the Security Council (USA, China, Russia, England, France) and Germany and Lien himself Chau.

Washington then resumed a series of tough economic sanctions, causing Tehran to respond by restarting the nuclear enrichment program exceeding the limits specified in the agreement.

Unofficial negotiations between the US and Iran on recovering the 2015 nuclear agreement were resumed in November 2021, nearly a year after Joe Biden took office as the president.

Russia strengthened to find Asian customers to deal with Western oil ban, putting pressure on competition with two close allies close to Venezuela and Iran.

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi is famous for its tough view, which can make the relationship with the United States more tense.