Trump sanctions Iran's oil and gas magnate

 Free Beacon:

The Trump administration slapped sanctions on an Iranian national and his corporate network for laundering hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of illicit petroleum products "to evade U.S. sanctions and generate revenue for Iran," the Treasury Department announced on Tuesday.

Iranian shipping magnate Seyed Asadollah Emamjomeh has worked with Tehran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) to illegally transport the hardline regime’s heavily sanctioned crude oil and liquefied petroleum gas, or LPG, to foreign markets across the globe, according to the department. Emamjomeh once attempted to transport LPG from Houston to China, though the effort failed. The ship he used, TINOS 1, is still in anchorage off Houston and was hit with sanctions under the latest order.

Emamjomeh’s shipping empire, the Treasury Department says, helped generate revenue for Iran’s "nuclear and advanced conventional weapons programs" as well as its "regional proxy groups and partners such as Hezbollah, the Houthis, and Hamas." Emamjomeh was sanctioned alongside his son, Meisam Emamjomeh, as well as a constellation of international companies controlled by the duo.

"Emamjomeh and his network sought to export thousands of shipments of LPG—including from the United States—to evade U.S. sanctions and generate revenue for Iran," Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said in a statement. "The United States remains committed to holding accountable those who seek to provide the Iranian regime with the funding it needs to further its destabilizing activities in the region and around the world."

The sanctions are the latest salvo in an escalating series of measures meant to cripple Tehran’s international oil trade and bankrupt the regime. They come as the Trump administration engages in negotiations with Iran over its nuclear program—negotiations that have sparked concerns among supporters of the "maximum pressure" sanctions campaign over mixed messages regarding Tehran's ability to enrich uranium under a prospective deal.
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The squeeze on the Iranian economy is tightening.  Iran is in the grasp of Islamic religious bigots who are hostile to their own people and the rest of the world.  The Iranian population would profit from a regime change.

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