US sanctions Russia's FSB, Iran's IRGC for 'hostage-taking': official
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- AFP
- Published Date: 08:26 | 27 April 2023
- Modified Date: 08:26 | 27 April 2023
The United States added new sanctions on Russia's FSB intelligence agency and Iran's Revolutionary Guard Thursday for taking "hostage" Americans like a Wall Street Journal reporter arrested in Russia last month.
The US is "showing that one cannot engage in this sort of awful behavior of using human beings as pawns, as bargaining chips, without paying consequences," said a senior US official.
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