Iran skirting U.S. sanctions by using network of companies, dissidents say
Washington Times, May 31, 2023
Iran is financing its military and internal security forces by exporting billions of dollars worth of oil through a network of international companies that evade U.S. sanctions, confidential internal documents released by an exiled Iranian dissident group show.
Companies operated by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) have facilitated sales not only of Iranian crude, but also the international transport of sanctioned Venezuelan oil, with China as a primary buyer, according to the documents the National Council of Resistance of Iran made public Wednesday.
The group pushed the claims at a press conference in Washington amid rising U.S. concern over the Guard’s political and economic power in Tehran, as well as growing international unease over the regime’s nuclear activities. Considered the protector of the 1979 Iranian Revolution, the IRGC was officially designated the IRGC as a terrorist organization by the Trump administration in 2019.
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