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On Thursday, the United States Treasury Department imposed sanctions on companies and people who worked on a network to facilitate the shipment of Iranian oil to China
The US imposed the sanctions on a network that facilitated the sending of Iranian oil to China. (Courtesy: Reuters)
The United States Treasury Department slapped several companies and individuals on Thursday, which included an Indian company and an Indian civilian, for working on a network to facilitate the sending of Iranian oil, in millions of barrels, to China.
The Office of External Assets Control of the Department sanctioned more than a dozen companies and people in China, India and the United Arab Emirates.
The sanctions were slapped against Iranian and Indian citizens, the collection of ships and crew management companies.
According to the United States, the network included nodes in India and the United Arab Emirates and carried millions of oil barrels to China when hundreds of millions of dollars flowed to the general personnel of the Iran Armed Forces.
“The Iranian regime focuses on taking advantage of its oil income to finance the development of its nuclear program, to produce its mortal ballistic missiles and its unmanned aerial vehicles, and to support their regional terrorist proxy groups,” said Treasure Secretary, Treasury Secretary, Scott Besent, in a news. Press release.
“The United States is committed to aggressively attacking any attempt to ensure funds for these evil activities,” he added.
National and company Indians face US sanctions
The United States imposed new sanctions on the crews of boats that continued to operate within the network even after facing the sanctions before. One of these ships was Anthea, who changed his name to Siri, but continued to operate on the network.
“The Iranian national Aash Lavian serves as Siri’s teacher and has taken measures to falsify shipping documents and physically hide the real name of the Siri to hide that the ship is sanctioned,” said the Treasury Department.
An Indian company called Marshal Ship Management PVT, which provides crew and shipping services, also received sanctions.
According to the company’s website, more than 3,000 crew are working for the company worldwide and has 110 boats under administration.
“The crew members provided by Marshal Ship Management Private Limited have helped Sepehr Energy to falsify shipping documents and present those documents to the port authorities,” said the treasure.
The president of the United States, Donald Trump, signed an executive order to order the United States government to impose maximum pressure on Tehran and said that “we will see if we can organize or make an agreement with Iran.”
“We don’t want to be hard with Iran. We don’t want to be hard with anyone. But they simply can’t have a nuclear bomb, “Trump said in the Oval office.
In a statement, the spokeswoman for the State Department, Tammy Bruce, said Thursday that the United States will use all the tools at our disposal to hold the regime for their destabilizing activities and the search for nuclear weapons that threaten the civilized world. “
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