US sanctions Chinese oil buyer over alleged Iran violations - Reuters
|US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said in a speech late-Monday that the US sanctioned Chinese state-run energy company Zhuhai Zhenrong Co Ltd for allegedly violating restrictions imposed on Iran’s oil sector.
Pompeo said: “We’ve said that we will sanction any sanctionable behavior, and we mean it.”
Zhuhai Zhenrong “knowingly engaged in a significant transaction for the purchase or acquisition of crude oil from Iran” after the expiration of a US sanctions waiver covering China on May 2, Pompeo added.
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