The Trump administration slapped fresh sanctions on Iran’s oil minister

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The Trump administration slapped fresh sanctions on Iran’s oil minister and a host of maritime service providers that have helped Tehran ferry its illicit crude across the globe, the latest in a bevy of measures meant to cripple the hardline regime’s financial networks.

For the first time, Iranian minister of petroleum Mohsen Paknejad was included in a sanctions package, signaling the Trump administration’s desire to target a central figure in the country’s oil smuggling operation. Paknejad "oversees the export of tens of billions of dollars’ worth of Iranian oil and has allocated billions of dollars’ worth of oil to Iran’s armed forces for export," according to the Treasury Department.

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