India, Feb. 25 -- The United States HAS imposed sanctions on more than 30 persons and vessels in multiple jurisdictions for their role in brokering the sale and transportation of Iranian petroleum-related products.
Among those sanctioned are oil brokers in the United Arab Emirates and Hong Kong, tanker operators and managers in India and China, the head of Iran's National Iranian Oil Company, and the Iranian Oil Terminals Company, whose operations help finance Iran's destabilizing activities.
The vessels sanctioned by the Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control and the U.S. Department of State are responsible for shipping tens of millions of barrels of crude oil worth hundreds of millions of dollars.
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