Treasury targets Iran’s most profitable oil refiners with new sanctions

Published June 8, 2019 12:00am ET



The Treasury Department imposed broad sanctions Friday on Iran’s petrochemical and refinery industry for contributing funds to the financial arm of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, which the State Department recently named a terrorist organization.

The sanctions target Iran’s largest and most profitable petrochemical holding group, called the Persian Gulf Petrochemical Industries Company, which maintains dozens of companies and subsidiaries.

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