Iran implements sanctions before the Trump administration takes the post. Donald Trump News
The US punishment targets Iran’s ‘Oil Network’, as Donald Trump pledged to bring back ‘maximum pressure’ against Tehran.
Washington DC – The United States has launched the first batch of sanctions against Iran since Donald Trump’s return to the White House, as US President pushes Tehran to resume “maximum pressure”.
The US Treasury announced the sanctions on Thursday, saying that they are aimed at Iran’s “Oil Network”.
Measures targeting firms, ships and individuals already affiliated by the US already approved companies. Under the former US President Joe Biden, the US regularly issued such punishment to implement the existing sanctions.
The Secretary of Treasury Scott Besant said, “The Iranian rule to fund its nuclear program, the benefit of its oil revenue to produce its deadly ballistic missiles and unmanned air vehicles and support your regional terrorist proxy groups Focus on lifting. ” statement.
“The United States is committed by Iran to aggressively target any attempt to secure money for these deadly activities.”
Iran has long rejected restrictions against its oil sector and dismissed efforts to seize its exports as “piracy”.
Treasury stated that sanctions “many courts include institutions and individuals and China, India and the United Arab Emirates.
Trump took action on Thursday two days after signing an executive order to revive his pressure campaign against Iran, which he started in 2018 during his first term after a nuclear deal with Tehran.
The 2015 multilateral agreement, which is formally known as a joint comprehensive plan (JCPOA), looked back to its nuclear program to Iran Scale in exchange for lifting international sanctions against its economy.
Biden tried to restore the deal, but several rounds of indirect talks with Iran failed to achieve their goals. In October 2023, this diplomatic push derailed with the outbreak of war on Gaza.
The former administration kept Iran’s sanctions and imposed several more punishment against Tehran.
But Republicans often accuse Biden of implementing restrictions and failing to prevent Iranian oil sales – especially for China.
Trump’s executive order directed US authorities to review and tighten the sanctions for “running Iran oil exports up to zero”.
Despite the decree, Trump has kept the door open for diplomacy with Tehran, saying that he is ready to reach the Iranian authorities.
The US President told reporters on Tuesday, “I want Iran to be a great and successful country, but cannot be a nuclear weapon.”
Iranian leaders have repeatedly refused to search for nuclear weapons, but Tehran is rapidly enriched uranium – the main material was required to produce bombs – in response to US sanctions for years.
Israel, the top American colleague in the Middle East, is widely considered as an undeclared nuclear arsenal.
On Thursday, the State Department welcomed the US punishment, stating that Washington would “not tolerate destructive and unstable behavior”.
In a statement, it described Tehran’s oil exports as “illegal”. But Iran – a sovereign country – is selling its oil.
“The income of these sales supports terrorists and proxy groups,” said the State Department.
Tehran has been vocal in opposing Trump’s plan to forcibly displacing the Palestinians from Gaza – a push that legal experts say that there will be an amount for ethnic cleaning.
