{"id":121816,"date":"2019-06-07T21:00:14","date_gmt":"2019-06-07T21:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bnreport.com\/us-sanctions-irans-petrochemical-holding-group-subsidiaries-sales-agents\/"},"modified":"2019-06-07T21:00:14","modified_gmt":"2019-06-07T21:00:14","slug":"us-sanctions-irans-petrochemical-holding-group-subsidiaries-sales-agents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bnreport.com\/en\/us-sanctions-irans-petrochemical-holding-group-subsidiaries-sales-agents\/","title":{"rendered":"US sanctions Irans petrochemical holding group, subsidiaries &amp; sales agents"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre><code>      The US Treasury Department has slapped sanctions on Irans largest and, according to Washington, \u201cmost profitable\u201d petrochemical holding group, for allegedly supporting terrorism.      \n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>Announced by the Treasury Department on Friday, the sanctions punish Persian Gulf Petrochemical Industries Company (PGPIC) for allegedly providing financial support to Irans elite Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), formally designated as a \u201cforeign terrorist organization\u201d by Washington in April.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nTreasury sanctions Irans largest petrochemical holding group and vast network of subsidiaries and sales agents <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/WM5rzENhFC\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/t.co\/WM5rzENhFC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Treasury Department (@USTreasury) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/USTreasury\/status\/1137009538417274882?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">June 7, 2019<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In addition, the sanctions target PGPICs<em> \u201cvast network\u201d<\/em> of 39 subsidiary companies and foreign sales agents. Altogether, these companies hold 40 percent of Irans total petrochemical production, and are responsible for 50 percent of the countrys petrochemical exports.<\/p>\n<p>Reiterating familiar claims, the Treasury Department stated that<em> \u201cthe profits from these activities support the IRGCs full range of nefarious activities, including the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) and their means of delivery, support for terrorism, and a variety of human rights abuses, at home and abroad.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/460881-iran-conflict-oil-prices\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">                           Also on rt.com             First bullet fired in the Gulf will make oil prices jump above $100 \u2013 Tehran                            <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Months before designating the IRGC a terrorist group, Washington had Irans oil industry in its crosshairs. The sector was sanctioned heavily after the US pulled out of the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/461320-us-treasury-sanctions-iran-petrochemical\/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=RSS\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read More \u2013 Source<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n[contf]<br \/>\n[contfnew]<br \/>\n        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/a\/a0\/Russia-today-logo.svg\/1200px-Russia-today-logo.svg.png\"\/><\/p>\n<h5><a href=\"http:\/\/rt.com\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">RT<\/a><\/h5>\n<p>[contfnewc]<br \/>\n[contfnewc]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US Treasury Department has slapped sanctions on Irans largest and, according to Washington, \u201cmos..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":121817,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>US sanctions Irans petrochemical holding group, subsidiaries &amp; 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