Washington announced on Thursday it had removed sanctions on three former Iranian officials and two companies that previously traded Iranian petrochemicals, a step one U.S. official claimed routine but that could show US readiness to relax sanctions when justified. Speaking on condition of anonymity, a US official said that the moves by the Treasury's ...

VOA - The United States has sanctioned several companies for allegedly allowing the shipment and sale of Iranian petrochemicals. Six companies headquartered in Iran, China and the United Arab Emirates were sanctioned for supporting Triliance Petrochemical Co., Ltd., a Hong Kong-based dealer with operations in Iran, China, the UAE and Germany, the ...

Reuters - The United States on Thursday blacklisted four companies in Irans metals sector, as well as one German and three Emirati subsidiaries of Irans largest steelmaker that Washington said generate millions of dollars for Tehrans metals industry. The Treasury Department said in a statement that the sales agents together generated tens of millions ...

The Wall Street Journal | Ian Talley & Bradley Hope: The Trump administration, expanding an effort to choke off oil and fuel trade between Iran and Venezuela, is readying new sanctions against dozens of tankers while pressuring companies associated with those vessels, according to people familiar with the plans. The U.S. Treasury Departments ...

MNA Iranian Foreign Ministry has condemned the United States hawkish move to block and seize the official domain name of Iranian state-run newspaper "Iran". The Islamic Republic of Iran strongly condemns the decision by the US Treasury Department to block the domain of the Iranian media, which is contrary to the universal declaration of human rights ...

Press TV - The US Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has, in an arbitrary move, blocked and seized the official domain name of Iranian state-run newspaper "Iran", the paper's managing director says. Mahdi Shafiei made the comments on Saturday, adding that legal efforts are underway to unblock and take back the domain "iran-...

FNA - Senior Advisor to the Iranian Parliament Speaker Hossein Amir Abdollahian blasted the US for lies about suspending sanctions which had hurdled imports of medical equipment needed to campaign against the coronavirus epidemic and treatment of patients in Iran. The US Treasury Department does not allow supply of drugs and medical equipment purchased ...

Bourse and Bazaar | Esfandyar Batmanghelidj: On Thursday, Swiss authorities announced that they had processed apilot transactionthrough theSwiss Humanitarian Trade Arrangement (SHTA), a new payment channel that intends to ease the sale of food and medicine to Iran by Swiss companies. Work on this channelbegan in late 2018following the Trump administrations ...

Bloomberg | Saleha Mohsin: The U.S. announced it has opened a banking channel via Switzerland to provide humanitarian aid to Iran, nearly two years after President Donald Trump withdrew from an international nuclear agreement with the Islamic Republic and reinstated severe economic sanctions. Cancer and organ transplant patients in Iran were the ...

FNA - On November 22nd of last year, the US government announced it would impose sanctions on Irans information minister for his alleged role in limiting domestic Internet access while protests raged in that country over increases in gas prices. At the time, US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin condemned the Iranian government for censuring information ...

Press TV - Iran's Fars news agency says its website has been blocked after the US Treasury Department blacklisted the media group. In a post on its Twitter account, Farsnews said that access to its .com domain had been blocked upon the US Treasury's order. The news agency said that it had received an email from the server company, which explicitly ...

Reuters - The United States on Thursday said it blacklisted two companies based in Hong Kong, one in Shanghai and one in Dubai for helping Irans state-owned National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC) export millions of dollars of goods in violation of U.S. sanctions. The U.S. Treasury Department said it imposed sanctions on the Hong Kong-based Triliance ...

Reuters - The U.S. Treasury Department said on Thursday it would allow for a 90-day period to wind down transactions in certain sectors of Iran's economy hit with fresh U.S. sanctions last week. The period will allow people to wind down transactions in the construction, mining, manufacturing or textiles sectors of Iran's economy that could fall ...

Reuters - U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said on Friday the department will grant sanction waivers to allow Americans or any one else to participate in the investigation of Wednesdays crash of an Ukrainian International Boeing 737-800 airliner in Iran that killed 176 people. Under U.S. sanctions law, the Treasurys Office of Foreign Assets ...

Sputnik An Indonesian businessmen and three companies based in Indonesia face charges over the procurement of US-made goods for Irans Mahan Air, the Treasury Department announced in a press release. "An eight-count indictment returned today charges [Sunarko] Kuntjoro and PTMS, PTKEU, and PTAK, with conspiracy to unlawfully export US-origin goods ...

Reuters - The United States on Monday imposed sanctions on nine people close to Irans Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, including his chief of staff, one of his sons and the head of the judiciary. Coinciding with the 40th anniversary of Irans seizure of the U.S. embassy in Tehran, the U.S. Treasury Department said it also was blacklisting Irans ...

The Wall Street Journal | Ian Talley: The Trump administration moved on Friday to further isolate Iran from the global financial system by declaring the country a jurisdiction of primary money laundering concern. The U.S. Treasury and State Departments also launched a new program to address concerns that its maximum pressure sanctions campaign is ...

Bourse and Bazaar | Esfandyar Batmanghelidj: The Treasury Department has announced that it will operationalize a financial channel to ease humanitarian trade with Iran, after acknowledging to European officials that recent sanctions imposed on the Central Bank of Iran (CBI) risked encumbering trade in food and medicine. The channel, ...

AP The U.S. is taking steps to ease sales of food and medicine to Iran amid stringent sanctions imposed on the country by the Trump administration. The Treasury Department says it has created a way to ensure humanitarian aid can continue despite the administrations effort to isolate the Islamic Republic. Treasury said it would allow permissible ...

Press TV - Data from November trade shows rates for shipping US oil to Asia hit more than a three-year high amid Americansanctions on China and Iran. Last Wednesday, the US Treasury Department announced sanctions on five Chinese nationals and six entities, including two Cosco Shipping Corporation subsidiaries. Washington is now facing backlash ...