Iran Press/ America: The Foreign Assets Control Office of the US Treasury Department claimed in a statement on Thursday local time: 13 companies in various fields that facilitated the sale of hundreds of millions of dollars of Iranian petrochemicals and oil products to buyers in East Asia.
The US Treasury Department added: Today's action is the fifth round of sanctions targeting Iran's oil and petrochemical business since June this year.
Brian Nelson, US Under Secretary of the Treasury for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence, claimed: Today's action shows the sophisticated methods of evading sanctions that Iran uses to illegally sell its oil and petrochemical products.
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The US will continue to enforce sanctions against actors who facilitate this trade. The companies sanctioned by the US are located in the United Arab Emirates, Hong Kong, the Marshall Islands and China, and the US government claims that these companies are acting on behalf of the sanctioned companies of the Persian Gulf Petrochemical Industries, Triliance Petrochemicals and the National Iranian Oil Company in delivering Iran's oil and petrochemical products.
In continuation of its combined war against the Islamic Republic of Iran, the United States announced on Wednesday local time that it has sanctioned six real personalities of the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting Organization(IRIB), including the head of IRIB and several journalists of the media.
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