Washington
8 September 2023

The Department of Justice publicly confirmed the April seizure an Iranian oil cargo aboard the Suez Rajan, describing it as a “successful disruption of a multimillion-dollar shipment of crude oil by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps... This is the first-ever criminal resolution involving a company that violated sanctions by facilitating the illicit sale and transport of Iranian oil”.

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