Earlier this month, Iran struck Israel with nearly 200 ballistic missiles in an attempt to avenge the deaths of Tehran's allies, the leaders of Hamas and Hezbollah.
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As reported by “NBN” with a link to the official page of the US Treasury Department, the US has significantly expanded the package of restrictions aimed at Iran's oil and petrochemical sectors in response to the above-described attack.
The US department believes that such actions will increase the degree of financial pressure on Iran, while simultaneously reducing the regime's ability to obtain critical revenues from the sale of energy resources. In particular, Iran openly uses such income to destabilize the Middle East region and attack US partners and allies.
The new sanctions restrictions apply to 16 legal entities and 23 tankers that “knowingly participated in significant transactions for the purchase/sale, transportation/marketing of oil.”
At the same time, in accordance with this decision, the US Treasury Department is able to impose identical sanctions on any structure/person involved in the oil and petrochemical industries of the Iranian economy.
Earlier, we wrote about the fact that the military US intelligence does not believe that Iran can develop nuclear weapons.