US sanctions on network over Iran using child soldiers

WASHINGTON: The US treasury imposed sanctions on Tuesday on a multibillion-dollar financial network that supports an Iranian paramilitary force that it said recruits and trains child soldiers for the country’s elite Revolutionary Guards. The announcement came two weeks before the Trump administration reimposes some of the US’S harshest sanctions against Iran, including its oil sector. The Bonyad Taavon Basij network supports a paramilitary group, the Basij Resistance Force.