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The U.S. has sanctioned much than 50 entities, individuals and vessels for allegedly facilitating Iranian vigor sales, according to an authoritative statement.
Two Indian nationals are the among those facing the sanctions, announced by the U.S. Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) connected Thursday (October 9, 2025).
“These actors person collectively enabled the export of billions of dollars’ worthy of petroleum and petroleum products, providing captious gross to the Iranian authorities and its enactment for violent groups that endanger the United States,” the section said successful a property release.
The sanctions are portion of the department's efforts to curb Iran’s petroleum and petrochemical exports. “The Treasury Department is degrading Iran’s currency travel by dismantling cardinal elements of Iran’s vigor export machine,” it said, quoting Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent.
One of the Indian nationals sanctioned is Varun Pula, who owns Marshall Islands-based Bertha Shipping Inc., which owns and operates Comoros-flagged vas PAMIR. The vas has transported astir 4 cardinal barrels of Iranian LPG to China since July 2024, according to the U.S. statement.
The different Indian nationalist sanctioned is Soniya Shrestha, who owns Vega Star Ship Management Private Limited. The institution owns and operates different Comoros-flagged vessel, NEPTA, which has transported Iranian-origin LPG to Pakistan since January 2025. The connection added that each "property and interests successful spot of the designated oregon blocked persons" that are successful the U.S. oregon successful the possession oregon power of U.S. persons are blocked and indispensable beryllium reported to OFAC.
