North -American Sancion Companies Submitting Iranian Oil in China

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The United States Treasury Department has sanctioned more than 20 companies that say they are involved in the transport of Iranian crude crude, worth billions of dollars in China, the last play in the “maximum pressure” campaign of Trump’s administration on Tehran.

The Treasury Foreign Active Control Office said that he sanctioned about two dozen groups involved in Iran’s “illegal oil trade”.

“Today’s action emphasizes our continued approach to intensifying the pressure on all aspects of Iran’s oil trade, which the regime uses to finance its dangerous and destabilizing activities,” he said, “he said,” he said, “he said,” Treasure Secretary Scott Bessent.

He said that the United States “will continue to go to this main source of income, provided that the regime continues to support terrorism and the proliferation of fatal arms.”

The action is addressed to various Hong Kong -based entities that the United States claim that they are front companies for SEPEHR ENERGY, a commercial subsidiary of IranThe general staff of the armed forces.

The United States said that SEPEHR ENERGY was using companies, including Chinese Rui Ji, Star Energy and Milen Trading, in runner and receiving Iranian oil shipments delivered to “Tetera” refineries, independent entities that have been considered the main Chinese buyers of Iranian.

He said that companies settled in China and operated there, but their commercial activities were controlled by SEPEHR Energy and its officials, at least one of whom has been sanctioned by the United States.

The treasure said that once the oil sale was completed, the revenue was sent from the AFGS companies. He added that sales revenue signed “the development of ballistic missiles and unmanned aerial vehicles, as well as funding regional terrorist groups”.

The U.S. are also sanctioning CCIC Singapore, which says that the Iranian origin of oil opened through boat -to -boat transfers, a combination of oil and falsification of documents, and several Hong Kong -based companies said that it operated as intermediaries between SEPEHR energy and refineries of the Chinese teapot.

The Treasury action was also directed to the old -fashioned “shadow” oil fleet used by SEPEHR ENERGY to facilitate Iranian oil shipments to China.

Recent sanctions are part of a wide repression of Chinese entities that the United States bring to buy or facilitate the purchase of Iranian crude. Are part of Washington’s strategy exerting pressure on Iran As he negotiated with him on his nuclear program.

In a speech President Donald Trump said he wanted to avoid conflicts with Iran, offering Tehran a “new and better way to a much more hopeful future”.

But he added: “If Iran’s leadership rejects this branch of olive trees.

In March, the Treasury put sanctions on a “Tetera” Chinese refinery for the first time. Headed to a second installation this past month.

The movements involved a renewed effort on the part of the United States to reduce Iranian oil exports after the criticism that the Biden administration did not do strong actions.

In April he put the treasure sanctions At Shandong Shengxing Chemical for allegedly buying more than $ 1 billion in Iranian raw in violation of US sanctions from sources that included a frontal company for the Tehran Islamic Revolutionary Guard body.

Beijing has repeatedly criticized US sanctions and accused Washington or used a “long arm jurisdiction” that reduces international trade.