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The United States Department of State and the Treasury Department reprived what they describe as “maximum pressure” sanctions to The “gloomy” oil trade of Iran On Monday, while tensions between Tehran and Washington remain high after the president Donald Trump He assumed the position last month.
He State Department He designated 16 entities and ships part of a “network of illicit shipping facilitators” that “obfusca and cheats its role in the load and transport of Iranian oil for sale to buyers in Asia,” said spokesman Tammy Bruce in a statement in a statement written.
The State Department, together with the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) of the Treasury Department (OFAC), is simultaneously sanctioning a total of 22 people and identified 13 vessels “as blocked property, in multiple jurisdictions, for their participation In Iran’s oil industry, “the statement said.
Bruce said that those involved in the gloomy network have “sent tens of millions of crude oil barrels worth hundreds of millions of dollars.”
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The state and treasure departments under the Trump administration have reimposed sanctions of maximum pressure on oil trade in the shadow of Iran, US officials said Monday. (Reuters/homavant/hail file)
“Today’s action represents an initial step to perform the campaign of President Trump of maximum pressure on the Iranian regime,” he said. “Iran interrupts Iran’s efforts to accumulate oil income to finance terrorist activities.”
Those who face the sanctions include oil runners in the United Arab Emirates and Hong Kong, oil and managers operators in India and the Popular Republic of China, the head of the Iranian National Petroleum Company of Iran and the company of terminals of Iranian oil, whose operations help finance the destabilization of Iran. Activities, said the ofac in a statement.
The secretary of the Treasury, Scott Besent, said that the United States will continue to identify and go to anyone involved in the illegal network with Iran.
“Iran continues to depend on a dark network of boats, loaders and runners to facilitate their oil sales and finance their destabilizing activities,” Besent said in a written statement. “The United States will use all our tools available to point to all aspects of the Iranian oil supply chain, and any person who occupies the Iranian oil is exposed to a significant risk of sanctions.”
After Trump signed an executive order that restored the campaign earlier this month, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi He said “the maximum pressure is a failed experiment, and trying again will only lead to another failure.”
The return of the maximum pressure campaign occurs when the tensions stand out in the Middle East between Hamas and Israel backed by Iran, and Tehran’s icy relationship With Washington under the Trump administration.
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The United States Department of Justice last year accused the Islamic Republic of An attempt to murder against Trump, Presumably in retaliation for the military strike that eliminated the IRGC Qassem Soleimani general in 2020. However, Iran’s president denied the claim during an interview with Lester Holt of NBC News in Tehran.
Iranian officials have also retreated all the United States efforts to reduce their nuclear ambitions.
Benjamin Weinthal of Fox News Digital contributed to this report.
