UK, US sanction Iranians linked to Quds Force, Palestinian militant groups

LONDON (Reuters) -Britain said it had adopted a new sanctions regime against Iran on Thursday as it announced measures against seven individuals, including the head of Tehran's Quds Force, for threatening or planning the destabilisation of Israel. The British government said the new regime, which it said gave it greater powers to act against Iran and its decisionmakers, had been brought in response to "unprecedented threats" from Tehran to peace in the Middle East and to plots to kill individual

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