US imposes sanctions over Iranian arms and cyber activity

The US is imposing fresh sanctions on suppliers to Iran's drone and ballistic missile program, and on Iranian officials suspected of involvement in hacking US infrastructure.

In a statement on Friday, the Department of State spokesperson Matthew Miller said: "The United States is taking action against these individuals to respond to these harmful activities and IGC-affiliated cyber actors' recent cyber operations targeting programmable logic controllers (PLCs), in which actors used default credentials to display an anti-Israel message on the PLCs' human-machine interface."

Also on Friday, the U.S. treasury department said it had imposed sanctions on four Iranian and Hong-Kong based suppliers to Iran's ballistic missile and drone programs.