Trump Admin Hits Iranian Shipping Company Tied to WMDs With Sanctions

The Trump administration has placed sanctions on an Iranian shipping company tied to a WMD program.

According to The Washington Free Beacon:

The Trump administration on Monday reimposed sanctions on Iran’s shipping industry due to its efforts to import ballistic missile technology and other equipment used as part of Tehran’s weapons of mass destruction program.

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The State Department announced that sanctions will be slapped on the Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines (IRISL) and a subsidiary corporation based in China, which has helped Iran skirt sanctions in the past. The sanctions on the entities were lifted for the past six months to help Iran import medical goods needed to aid its response to the coronavirus pandemic.

“Now that this generous delay has come to an end, those in the commercial and maritime industries doing business with Iran must use carriers or shipping methods other than IRISL” or risk facing “exposure to U.S. WMD sanctions,” Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said.

Iran’s shipping sector is key to its import of illicit missile technology and other nuclear proliferation-sensitive technologies tied to the country’s atomic weapons program.

Pompeo stated that despite the Iranians claiming they will never pursue a nuclear weapon they continue to take the steps contrary to those statements.

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