By SCM Staff Writer I Friday, Nov.21.25
WASHINGTON: The United States has launched a massive, coordinated strike against Iran’s “shadow fleet” and a web of illicit shipping firms, airlines, and front companies it says are funneling billions to Tehran’s terror proxies.
The move, announced Thursday by the Departments of State and the Treasury, aims to choke off the oil money allegedly funding Iran’s “malign activities,” including arming terror groups that pose a direct threat to US forces and their allies.
The Departments targeted a total of 58 entities, individuals, vessels, and aircraft scattered across the globe, including in India, Panama, and the Seychelles.
The crackdown is part of America’s “maximum pressure” campaign against the Iranian regime.
Officials say the funds generated by the illicit oil sales are used to support regional terrorist groups and to buy weapons systems.
The State Department named 17 entities, individuals, and vessels involved in selling Iranian petroleum, while the Treasury Department hit another 41 targets, including additional shipping networks and an airline, Mahan Air, and its affiliates, for allegedly supplying arms to Iran-backed militant groups.
Tommy Pigott, Principal Deputy Spokesperson for the State Department, stressed: “As long as Iran devotes revenue to funding attacks against the United States and our allies, supporting terrorism around the world, and pursuing other destabilizing actions, we will use all the tools at our disposal to hold the regime accountable.”
The US is determined to disrupt the “illicit funding streams” that finance all aspects of Iran’s global terror operations.
The crackdown revealed that some of the sanctioned targets were operating in India.
Among those named was an India-based petroleum products trader, TR6 Petro India LLP, which is accused of importing millions of dollars’ worth of Iranian-origin bitumen. Also hit was an India-based operator, RN Ship Management Private Limited, for managing vessels used to transport Iranian crude.
The sanctions mean that any property or interests in property of the designated individuals and companies in the United States, or in the possession or control of U.S. persons, are now BLOCKED.
The US government says this action is a continuation of its robust campaign to curb Iran’s oil sales and its ability to fund destabilizing activity globally.
