Iran decries latest round of US sanctions
Sanctions target ‘international network’ that has allegedly provided Syrian regime with oil supplies
ANKARA
Iran has condemned a fresh round of U.S. sanctions imposed for alleged “terrorism financing” by Tehran.
On Tuesday, the U.S. Treasury Department announced the sanctions, which target an “international network” including five individuals and four companies.
The sanctions are ostensibly aimed at halting oil sales to Syria’s Assad regime.
“Those who design and apply these futile and ineffective sanctions will never achieve their desired aims,” Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Bahram Qassemi said in a statement.
Targets of the sanctions allegedly comprise a “network” through which the Iranian regime works in tandem with Russian companies to supply the Syrian regime with oil.
Damascus, in turn, has allegedly facilitated the transfer of hundreds of millions of dollars to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-Quds Force (IRGC-QF) for subsequent transfer to Hamas and Hezbollah.
The agreement had placed strict restrictions on Iran’s nuclear program in exchange for billions of dollars in sanctions relief.
In July, the U.S. State Department announced its intention to reduce Iranian oil revenue to zero. Iranian President Hassan Rouhani swiftly responded by warning the U.S. against impeding Iranian oil exports.
The following month, the U.S. re-imposed
Reporting by Ahmet Dursun:Writing by Mahmoud Barakat
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