Sanctions against iran

Iran triples oil loading rate as tensions rise with US, oil accumulating offshore - WSJ

According to the global commodity data provider site Kpler, the recent average has been approximately 10 million barrels of crude oil and condensate per week.

|ByTZVI JASPER
A VIEW of an oil facility in the Khark Island, on the shore of the Gulf, March 12, 2017.
A sailboat sails as a boat approaches to the boarding ladder of the Iranian oil tanker Grace 1 as it sits anchored after it was seized in July by British Royal Marines off the coast of the British Mediterranean territory on suspicion of violating sanctions against Syria, in the Strait of Gibraltar,

US expands Iran sanctions, targets illegal petroleum 'shadow fleet,' weapon production

Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control also targeted multiple networks that enable Iran to secure the precursor materials and machinery required for ballistic missile and other weapons.

|ByREUTERS
A PERSON walks past a sign at a currency exchange, as the value of the Iranian Rial drops, in Tehran, Iran, December 30, 2025.

US issues sanctions on six Iranian officials for crackdown on protesters as rial hits record low

The sanctions will target six officials who “oversee the Iranian security forces responsible for the violent crackdowns on protesters,” including Iran’s minister of the interior.

|ByGOLDIE KATZ
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio testifies before a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing titled "US Policy Towards Venezuela", on Capitol Hill in Washington, January 28, 2026.

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio bans senior Iranian officials, families from being in US

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio revokes US entry privileges for senior Iranian officials and their families, citing human rights abuses.

|ByJAMES GENN

World powers to test Iran's good faith over commitment to June texts

Talks on reviving the 2015 Iran nuclear deal resumed with the US and Israel ramping up the rhetorical pressure on Tehran on consequences.

DECEMBER 10, 2021ByREUTERS
The Iranian flag waves in front of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) headquarters, before the beginning of a board of governors meeting, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Vienna, Austria, March 1, 2021.

US sanctions Iranians over alleged plot to kidnap NY-based journalist

The sanctions come after US prosecutors in July charged the four with plotting to kidnap the New York-based journalist who was critical of Tehran.

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021ByREUTERS
Masih Alinejad, 37, a Britain-based Iranian journalist, poses for a portrait in London October 8, 2013

Iran pressuring US on sanctions ahead of rejoining nuclear agreement

Many of the sanctions imposed by the administration of then-President Donald Trump after the 2018 US withdrawal from the JCPOA hobbled the Iranian economy, punishing the regime.

JULY 13, 2021ByMIKE WAGENHEIM / THE MEDIA LINE
RUSSIA’S GOVERNOR to the IAEA Mikhail Ulyanov waits for the start of talks on reviving the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, in Vienna, Austria, last month.

Biden: US will not lift Iran sanctions until it stops enriching uranium

Last quarterly estimates by IAEA show Iran's stock of enriched uranium has risen to 2.4 tons, more than 10 times the amount allowed under the JCPOA.

FEBRUARY 7, 2021ByOMRI NAHMIAS
US President Joe Biden visits the State Department, Washington

Iran-based dissidents urge Biden to keep sanctions on Islamic Republic

"Maintaining maximum political, diplomatic, and financial pressure on the regime"

FEBRUARY 7, 2021ByBENJAMIN WEINTHAL
US President-Elect Joe Biden in this file photo from July 14 2020

Iran uses disguised tanker to export Venezuelan oil

PDVSA, Venezuela's oil ministry and NIOC did not respond to requests for comment. The US Treasury Department declined to comment.

DECEMBER 14, 2020ByREUTERS
A general view of Abadan oil refinery in southwest Iran, is pictured from Iraqi side of Shatt al-Arab in Al-Faw south of Basra, Iraq September 21, 2019

Iran’s Zarif tries to form Russia-China alliance against US

Iran seeks to harness Russia and also China to confront “US lawlessness,”

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020BySETH J. FRANTZMAN
FILE PHOTO: Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif looks on during a meeting with Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, in Moscow, Russia December 30, 2019.

What is the plan following US sanctions targeting Iran's missile program?

The US is putting in place sweeping measures to confront the Iranian nuclear program.

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020BySETH J. FRANTZMAN
A display featuring missiles and a portrait of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is seen at Baharestan Square in Tehran, Iran September 27, 2017

US reimposes sanctions on Iran

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Saturday that the US "expects all UN Member States to comply” with snapback sanctions on the Islamic Republic.

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020ByOMRI NAHMIAS, LAHAV HARKOV
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo visiting Sudan, 2020.

UN chief says no action on UN Iran sanctions due to 'uncertainty'

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said last month that he triggered a 30-day process at the council leading to the return of UN sanctions on Iran on Saturday evening.

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020ByREUTERS
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks to reporters following a meeting with members of the U.N. Security Council about Iran's alleged non-compliance with a nuclear deal and calling for the restoration of sanctions against Iran as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Kelly Craft listens at U.N.