US Imposes Sanctions on Iranian Network Supporting Child Soldiers

An Iranian woman walks past a giant poster showing supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (R) and the founder of Iran's Islamic Republic, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini (L) during a ceremony marking the 36th anniversary of his return from exile at Khomeini's mausoleum in a suburb of Tehran on Feb. 1, 2015. Atta Kenare/AFP/Getty Images

WASHINGTON—The U.S. Treasury imposed sanctions on Oct. 16, 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 United States’ harshest sanctions against Iran, including its oil sector.