The new sanctions include three exchange houses, indicates a press release from the Treasury Department, explaining that this is to thwart the conversion into local currency of yuan used by Chinese actors to settle Iranian oil.
“L’Iran is the head of the snake of global terrorism, and under the leadership of President Donald Trumpthe US Treasury is taking energetic action, as part of the operation +Economic Fury+, to cut off sources of funding for the Iranian military,” Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent was quoted as saying in the statement. “We will relentlessly attack the Iranian regime’s ability to generate, transfer and repatriate funds,” he added.
The exchange houses targeted by the new American sanctions are Opal Exchange, Radin Exchange And Arz Iran Exchange (also known as Tahayyori Guarantee Society).
The American executive at the same time published a warning explaining that ships paying a toll to secure the crossing of the Strait of Hormuz expose themselves to sanctions.
On Wednesday, US President Donald Trump urged Iranian authorities to accelerate the conclusion of an agreement with the United Statesn with a view to ending the conflict, while discussions between Washington And Tehran have been struggling to make progress for several days.
The day before, he said Iran had informed the United States that the country is in a “state of collapse” and that it wants Washington to open the Strait of Hormuz “as soon as possible.”
The tenant of the White House had canceled the trip of his emissaries over the past weekend, Steve Wittkoff And Jared Kushnerwhich was planned in Islamabad with a view to new negotiations with Iran to end the conflict. He spoke of “considerable confusion and infighting” within the Iranian “leadership”, saying that “no one knows who is in charge, not even them”.
