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The United States has imposed sanctions on two Chinese petrochemical groups on allegations of importing Iranian crude oil in the latest salvo of President Donald Trump’s Islamic Republic.
The State Department says they have already banned the Huju Da Bay Petrochemical Terminal Storage Huang for violating American sanctions by purchasing and saving Iranian crude oil sent to China.
The Treasury Division separately left the Chinese Refiners Looking Petrochemical for Iranian Unplisable Purchase Oil Hoothis and Iranian military transfer to ships.
Treasury said that the sanctions on petrochemical looking for the first time Washington are a “tipt” refiner – private Chinese refineries that imposed this national punishment as the main buyer of Iran’s crude oil.
“The Tipot Refinery Purchase of Iranian Oil, Sponsoring the Iranian Oil, sponsored the primary economic lifeline for the Iranian government,” said the US Treasury Secretary Scott Besent. “The United States of America is committed to the continued financing of Tehran and the revenue flow that enables financing to develop its nuclear program.”
Trump wrote to the Iranian leader this month that he urged him to reach an agreement in the United States in his nuclear program. If Tehran did not agree to diplomatic efforts he threatened the “horror” consequence Iran Did not respond to the overturn.
Last month, Trump said he was rebuilding his “maximum pressure” campaign on Iran, in which Iran’s oil would include sanctions on the entities sent to China. The goal is to force Iran to the United States in a more favorable terms table, though it is not clear whether Tehran is interested in doing so.
According to recent data from the US Energy Information Agency, Iran’s crude oil exports have been more troubling in the last four years, more than 1.5 million B/D, in 2021, more than 1.5 million B/D in the first three quarters of China.
Iran’s total production capacity is estimated to be about 3.8 million B/D, a member of the OPEC oil-export cartel. China, the world’s largest foreign crude oil buyer, was imported about 11 million B/D last year.
Iran’s hardliners Has been done to work The reformist president of the country is to undermine the Pageshkian and neglect the discussion with the United States. Trump has tapped his special envoy Steve Witcoof to oversee the Iran file and his team has started some work, but diplomats say Trump has not yet nominated a daily point person for the matter.
“As long as Iran tries to earn oil income for its unstable activities for its unstable activities, the United States will be responsible for both Iran and all its sanctions,” said Tammy Bruce, a spokesman for the State Department.
The United States says these sanctions were part of a steps designed to eliminate Iran oil exports including China.
The Treasury says it was also prohibited on five other entities, including the owners of Chinese and Hong Kong ships, which is part of the “shadow of the ship supplying the refinery ship in China.”
The United States is concerned with the cooperation between Tehran and Beijing, from oil supply to Iran to facilitate the development of weapons.
Financial Times reported in January that two Iranian ships carrying a chemical material for missile propellants were ready Travel from China to Iran In the following weeks. An Iranian ship, named Golban, first left China, and then reached Abbas, a port of southern Iran, in the Gulf.
The Chinese Embassy did not immediately respond to the request to comment on new sanctions.
