{"id":14681,"date":"2025-07-04T06:18:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-04T06:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/?p=14681"},"modified":"2025-07-04T06:18:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-04T06:18:10","slug":"us-imposes-fresh-sanctions-targeting-iran-oil-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/14681\/","title":{"rendered":"US imposes fresh sanctions targeting Iran oil trade"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content\" itemprop=\"description\"><p><span class=\"pre-content-text\"><a style=\"color: #0038a8;\" href=\"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/\">RoydadNaft &#8211; <\/a><\/span>\u00a0The Trump administration imposed new sanctions targeting Iran\u2019s oil trade on Thursday as part of its maximum pressure campaign, the US Treasury Department announced.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Treasury imposed sanctions on an Iraqi business network, led by Salim Ahmed Said, accused of concealing Iranian crude as &#8220;Iraqi oil&#8221; using ship-to-ship transfers since at least 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Several tankers linked to Iran\u2019s covert shipping operations\u2014flagged in Panama, Comoros and others\u2014were sanctioned to disrupt what the U.S. calls Iran\u2019s \u201cshadow fleet\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Treasury placed sanctions on senior officials and at least one entity associated with Al\u2011Qard Al\u2011Hassan, a Hezbollah\u2011controlled financial institution, for handling millions in transactions that benefit the group.<\/p>\n<p>This marks the eighth round of sanctions targeting Iran\u2019s oil sector under Executive Orders 13902 and 13224, part of a broader \u201cmaximum pressure\u201d campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Analysts view this as a strategic effort to pressure Iran economically without direct military action, though critics warn it may also ripple into civilian sectors.<\/p>\n<p>These sanctions come immediately after a ceasefire in the recent 12-day Middle East conflict, marking the first sanctions on Iran\u2019s energy sector since that truce<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in June, the U.S. had already sanctioned Iran\u2019s &#8220;shadow banking&#8221; networks\u2014covering over 30 entities tied to laundering oil revenue.<\/p>\n<p>In February, further sanctions were applied to Iranian oil fronts like Sepehr Energy to further constrain Iran&#8217;s petroleum-related finances<\/p>\n<div class=\"post-date no-social-btn post-updated\">Updated on<time class=\"updated dt-updated\" itemprop=\"dateModified\" datetime=\"2025-07-04T06:18:10+00:00\"> 4 July 2025<\/time><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Trump administration imposed new sanctions targeting Iran\u2019s oil trade on Thursday as part of its maximum pressure campaign, the US Treasury Department announced.","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14682,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[47,17,22,36,19,16,35],"tags":[],"services":[],"class_list":["post-14681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-economy","category-iran","category-lastnews","category-news","category-oil","category-topnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14681\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14681"},{"taxonomy":"services","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/services?post=14681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}