On Feb. 6, 2025, the United States sanctioned an international network that smuggled millions of barrels of Iranian oil worth hundreds of millions of dollars. China, which reportedly purchases some 90 percent of Iran’s crude oil exports, was the destination for the cargo. The Treasury Department…
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On Feb. 4, 2025, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) announced the names of two senior Iranian intelligence officers who were involved in the abduction of Robert. A “Bob” Levinson in 2007. The retired FBI agent was reportedly on a rogue Central Intelligence Agency mission when he disappeared…
On Feb. 4, 2025, President Donald Trump signed a memorandum to impose “maximum pressure” on Iran’s government, deny Tehran all paths to a nuclear weapon, and counter the regime’s malign influence in the Middle East. It is “in the national interest to impose maximum pressure on the Iranian regime to…
On Dec. 31, 2024, the United States sanctioned the Cognitive Design Production Center, an organization under Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, for attempting to inflame sociopolitical tensions and influence the outcome of the 2024 U.S. election. Concurrently, the Treasury Department also…
On Dec. 20, 2024, the U.S. Department of Justice charged Mohammad Reza Nouri, an Iranian national and officer in the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), for plotting the murder of American Stephen Troell, who was working at an English language institute in Iraq in 2022. The United…
On Dec. 19, 2024, the U.S. Treasury sanctioned four companies and three vessels involved in trading Iranian oil and petrochemicals worth billions of dollars. Petrochemicals, derived from oil and natural gas, are essential to manufacturing paints, plastics, solar panels, medicine, and mobile phones…
On Dec. 18, 2024, the U.S. Treasury Department sanctioned one Iranian company, one Swiss company and two Iranians for involvement in procuring equipment used in Iranian drones and missiles. “The United States will continue to disrupt Iran’s attempts to provide its deadly weapons to Russia, its…
On Dec. 3, 2024, the United States sanctioned 35 firms and vessels for transporting Iranian oil in violation of sanctions. The designated companies were based in the United Arab Emirates, Panama, India, China, and Hong Kong. The geographic spread reflected Iran’s extensive network of partners, the…
On Nov. 14, 2024, the United States imposed sanctions on 26 companies, individuals and vessels connected to a Syrian company, Al-Qatirji. The network sold Iranian oil to Syria and China to generate hundreds of millions of dollars for the Qods Force, the external operations arm of the Islamic…
The United States expanded sanctions on Iran’s oil sector in response to Tehran’s October 1 assault on Israel. Iran had launched 180 ballistic missiles in its second direct attack on Israel in six months. “We are taking steps today to disrupt the flow of revenue the Iranian regime uses to fund its…