US Sells Seized Iran Cargo

摘要

The US has sold more than 1 million bbl of Iranian fuel seized under its sanctions program last year, a Department of Justice official said, as another ship with intercepted Iranian crude oil sails to a US port. The seizures are part of Washington’s tough economic sanctions on Tehran imposed over its nuclear program and the US designation of a number of Iranian groups as terrorists, continuing decades of rancor between the two nations (OD Feb.8’21). Iran rejects US accusations of wrongdoing. In a new approach last year, the administration of former US President Donald Trump used civil forfeiture procedures to seize some 1.2 million bbl of gasoline it said were being sent from Iran to Venezuela aboard four tankers (OD Feb.3’21).