[Washington 4th Reuters]-The United States announced on the 4th that it has designated sanctions for companies, ships and individuals belonging to the oil transport network suspected of involving the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Defense Corps. The company supplies oil of hundreds of millions of dollars to Syria and violates US sanctions.
According to a statement by the US Treasury, the sanctions are 10 individuals including former oil minister Rostam Gazemi and his son. It also included a subsidiary of an Indian company interested in the Iranian tanker “Adrian Dariya”, who was suspected of transporting oil to Syria.
The Treasury Department's Foreign Asset Management Office freezes US assets of individuals and companies that have been sanctioned. Normally, transactions with sanctioned companies are prohibited.
According to U.S. officials, Revolutionary Defense Corps ’elite“ Cods ”and Hezbollah, an Islamic Shia armed organization operating in Lebanon, are profitable by selling Iranian crude oil and petroleum products primarily to Syria. The profit will reach over $ 750 million this spring alone.
US Treasury Secretary Mnushin said in a statement, “The Treasury's action on the broad oil network clarifies that the purchase of Iranian crude oil directly supports Iranian extremists, terrorists, and Kodz units.” It was.