WASHINGTON — The US Treasury Department on Friday imposed sanctions on a group of six Iranian officials it said were responsible for this month’s violent crackdown on anti-government protesters.

The move comes as President Donald Trump weighs military action against Iran after mass protests left thousands dead at the hands of Iranian security forces. The New York Times reported on Friday that the Pentagon has presented Trump with options that include US forces carrying out raids on sites inside Iran.

The targets included Iranian Interior Minister Eskandar Momeni Kalagari, who oversees the country’s Law Enforcement Forces, Majid Khademi, head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps' Intelligence Organization and Ghorban Mohammad Valizadeh, the commander of the IRGC’s Seyyad al-Shohada Corps in Tehran province.

The sanctions follow the European Union’s decision Thursday to label the IRGC as a terrorist group, a mostly symbolic move that puts it in the same category as the Islamic State, al-Qaeda and Hamas. Trump designated the entity as a foreign terrorist organization in his first term.