The US State Department and the Treasury Department reimply is what disrupts as sanctions “maximum pressure” Iran’s “shadowy” oil shop Monday as tension between Tehran and Washington remain high after the president Donald Trump He took his duty last month.
The State Department He designed 16 entities and vessels part of the “network of illegal displacement” that “scams and fraud in the load and transport of Iranian oil for sale in Asia,” said Vintage Tammy Bruce in a written statement.
The State Department, together with the Property Consider Control Department (OFAC), sanctioned a total of 22 people and identified 13 vessels “as blocked assets, in more competencies, for their inclusion in the Iran Paste Industry” Statement specified.
Bruce said that those involved in the shady network “delivered tens of millions of barrels of crude oil worth hundreds of millions of dollars.”
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“Today’s action is the initial step for the realization of the campaign of the President Trump maximum pressure on the Iranian regime,” she said. “Disables Iran’s efforts to install oil revenues to finance terrorist activities.”
Those with faced sanctions include oil intermediaries and Hong Kong, India and People’s Republic of China, the head of Iranian Iranian oil and the Iranian oil company, whose operations are helping the Destabilization of Iranian activity, said the OFAC in the statement .
Secretary Treasury Scott Bensent said that the US will continue to identify and go after someone is involved in an illegal network with Iran.
“Iran continues to relish on the shady network of vessels, shipowners and intermediaries to facilitate their sales of oil and finance their destabilizing activities,” Sensent said in a written statement. “The United States will use all our available tools for targeting all aspects of oil supply chain and all-engaged in Iranian oil is exposed to significant risk of sanctions.”
Once Trump signed the executive order by returning the campaign earlier this month, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi It was said “The maximum pressure is a failed experiment and retry it again only to another failure”.
The return of the maximum pressure campaign comes as tensions in the Middle East between Hamas and Israel that supported Iran, and Tehran is an icy relationship With Washington under trump.
The US Department of Justice has accused the Islamic Republic with the Attempted assassination against Trump, Probably in retaliations for a military strike that eliminated General IRGC QASSEM Soleimani 2020. Years. Iranian president, however, denied an assertion during the interview with NBC news “Lester Holt in Tehran.
Iranian officials also pushed to all American efforts to reduce her nuclear ambitions.
Fox News Digital’s Benjamin Weinhal contributed to this report.
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2025-02-24 17:21:00
