US President Barack Obama has announced fresh sanctions against Iran, Syria and those who help them use technology to perpetrate human rights abuses.

He announced the new sanctions against "digital guns for hire" in a speech at the US Holocaust Museum.

Mr Obama has also asked US intelligence groups to include assessments of the likelihood of mass killings in its co-ordinated reports.

He said: "National sovereignty is never a licence to slaughter your people."

The executive order creates sanctions against the government of Syria and Iran "and those who abet them, for using technologies to monitor, target and track its citizens for violence".

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