U.S. slaps fresh sanctions against Iran over alleged cyber crimes

TEHRAN- The Treasury Department and the State Department said on Tuesday that the United States government has imposed charges and penalties on four Iranian nationals in connection with an alleged multi-year cyber operation that targeted over a dozen American firms.

Additionally, the Treasury Department issued sanctions on two firms, Dadeh Afzar Arman and Mehrsam Andisheh Saz Nik, which it claimed employed the individual defendants and served as front organizations for Iran’s Revolutionary Guard cyber command.

The business targets, according to federal prosecutors in Manhattan, were…