Tuesday, November 20, 2018

U.S. Sanctions Iran - Russian Network To Send Oil To Syria

The US on Tuesday said it sanctioned six individuals and three entities to disrupt an Iranian-Russian network that it said was providing millions of barrels of oil to the Syrian government. (AFP)

The Hill: US sanctions alleged Russia-Iran scheme to send oil to Syria

The Trump administration on Tuesday announced new sanctions designed to disrupt an alleged Iranian and Russian scheme to ship oil to Syria, billing it as part of Washington's “maximum pressure” campaign on Tehran and a push to cut off fuel supplies for Syrian leader Bashar Assad.

The Treasury Department designated nine targets linked to what it called an illicit plot involving officials in Iran working with Russian companies to send millions of barrels of oil to the Assad government in exchange for funds that Tehran then used to fund designated terrorist groups.

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3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Yeah, this will be the sanction that finally topples the Mullahs.

How many kids were killed by American bombs in Yemen today? How many died
of disease? F$%k 'em.

Anonymous said...

When you side with the Ayatollahs, you suffer.

Here is another point. Yemen was unified for 25 years. In some respects this is about the Fractious nature of the Yemenis as it is Saudis and Iranians or the Romans and the Persians.


Yemeni unification
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yemeni_unification

Anonymous said...

Anon 834 will push Saudi Arabia into the arms of China or Russian and then Saudi Arabia will be able to drop twice as many bombs.

Anon 834 will still be bitching about the US.