The United States has sanctioned six senior members of Iranian state-run media, accusing them of broadcasting forced confessions to undermine the protests roiling Iran.In a statement on Wednesday, the US Treasury Department said Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB) recently produced and broadcast “interviews of individuals being forced to confess that their relatives were not killed by Iranian authorities” during the demonstrations.Two of the sanctioned individuals, Ali Rezvani and Ameneh Sadat Zabihpour, were identified as “interrogator-journalists”, accused of collaborating with Iranian intelligence agencies to extract forced confessions.
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