The US Department of the Treasury announced that the United States has eased up on sanctions against Iran to permit a broad list of medical supplies to be exported or re-exported there.

WASHINGTON (Sputnik)�� The United States has eased up�on sanctions against�Iran to�permit a broad list of�medical supplies to�be exported or re-exported there, the US Department of�the Treasury announced in�a statement.

�The Department of�the Treasury's Office of�Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) is updating the List of�Medical Supplies eligible for�exportation or re-exportation to�Iran under�the general license� of�the Iranian Transactions and Sanctions Regulations (ITSR)� to�include additional items,� the statement said on�Monday.

The move is a modification of�the ITSR within�the general license originally issued on�October 22, 2012 for�the export of�basic medical supplies to�Iran, it explained.

The move comes three days after�Republican members of�Congress urged President Barack Obama on�Friday to�impose additional economic sanctions on�Iran�s Revolutionary Guard Corps following�the arrest of�Iranian-American oil executive Siamak Namazi.

On Thursday and Friday, Secretary of�State John Kerry met with�Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif in�Vienna to�discuss the nuclear agreement reached in�mid-July as�well as�the Syria conflict amid�growing predictions that Washington will agree to�Teheran�s full participation in�the Syrian peace process.

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