The United States announced the imposition of sanctions to the network of companies involved in the transport of Iranian oil to China. People and companies from the PRC, India and the United Arab Emirates hit the list of entities covered by restrictions.
The American Ministry of Finance informed in a statement that Sanctions covered entities and ships working for the authorities Iranwhich in this way avoided restrictions on the export of crude oil, including down China. Its value is estimated at “hundreds of millions of dollars”. The document recalled transport from December last year, two million barrels of Iranian oil to China.
The US imposed sanctions on the transport of Iranian oil to China
Among the sanctions of companies and persons are entities from the PRC, IndiaUnited Arab Emirates, as well as ships floating under the flags of Komorów, Panama, Seychelles, Hong Kong and Cameroon. Some of these units have already been restricted due to belonging to the Russian “shadow fleet”.
Sanctions were imposed two days after Donald Trump He signed a memorandum about returning to the policy of “maximum pressure” to Iran, in order to prevent Tehran to obtain nuclear weapons. The US President also announced that he was counting on the conclusion of the Iran system and suggested that he was against the possible Israeli strikes for nuclear installations in Iran.
– The Iranian regime is still focusing on the use of crude oil income to finance its nuclear program, the production of deadly ballistic shells and unmanned aircraft and supporting regional terrorist groups. United States undertook to aggressively combat any Iran attempts to raise funds for these malicious activities – the new head of the Ministry of Finance Scott Bessent said.
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