US imposes fresh Iran-related sanctions on two people, six companies
Friday 24/January/2020 - 01:17 PM
The United States on Thursday imposed Iran-related
sanctions on two individuals and six companies, including four firms tied to
the National Iranian Oil Company.
The National Iranian Oil Company is “an entity
instrumental in Iran’s petroleum and petrochemical industries, which helps to
finance Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-Quds Force (IRGC-QF) and its
terrorist proxies,” the US Treasury said in a statement on its website.
Tensions between Iran and the United States have
ratcheted up since 2018, most recently over an US attack that killed a top
Iranian general.
