The United States has announced new sanctions against Iran and that country's drone industry. The move comes five days after the Islamic Republic's attack on Israel.

The European Union and the United States, which have taken similar measures, have not yet specified them. Washington warns that it will take other additional punitive measures in the coming days and warns of additional steps in the immediate future. "Together with our partners and allies, the United States defended Israel. We helped defeat that attack. And today we hold Iran accountable by imposing new sanctions and export controls on Iran," said the President of the U.S., Joe Biden, in a statement after the announcement of the sanctions. The European Union already announced on Wednesday that it would adopt measures, and the United Kingdom, which will include the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps navy in its sanctions, has also done so. It is a joint step with which Israel's partners try to demonstrate to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that there are alternative ways to hold Tehran to account. The United States maintains a long list of sanctions against Iran, and had already imposed punitive measures against the drone industry last October. One possibility that the Treasury Department does not rule out, when applying new sanctions, is to punish the Iranian oil sector. But Washington would have to tread very carefully to avoid destabilizing global energy markets, something it does not want at any time, least of all in a year of an electoral year. The U.S. State Department also points out the possibility of additional sanctions against the country, but does not reject playing that card, as the Treasury Secretary did not reject it earlier this week.