{"id":1751,"date":"2021-01-16T11:52:42","date_gmt":"2021-01-16T11:52:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyrapidnews.com\/eng\/?p=1751"},"modified":"2021-01-16T11:52:42","modified_gmt":"2021-01-16T11:52:42","slug":"us-imposes-fresh-sanctions-on-iran-in-final-days-of-trump-presidency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyrapidnews.com\/eng\/2021\/01\/16\/us-imposes-fresh-sanctions-on-iran-in-final-days-of-trump-presidency\/","title":{"rendered":"US imposes fresh sanctions on Iran in final days of Trump presidency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The United States on Friday imposed sanctions on companies in Iran, China and the United Arab Emirates for doing business with the Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines and on three Iranian entities over conventional arms proliferation.<\/p>\n<p>They are the latest in a series of measures aimed at stepping up pressure on Tehran in the waning days of President Donald Trump\u2019s administration, which ends on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1754\" src=\"https:\/\/dailyrapidnews.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/pompeo-rapid-news-rapidnews-US-imposes-fresh-sanctions-on-Iran-in-final-days-of-Trump-presidency-dailyrapidnews.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"679\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dailyrapidnews.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/pompeo-rapid-news-rapidnews-US-imposes-fresh-sanctions-on-Iran-in-final-days-of-Trump-presidency-dailyrapidnews.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/dailyrapidnews.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/pompeo-rapid-news-rapidnews-US-imposes-fresh-sanctions-on-Iran-in-final-days-of-Trump-presidency-dailyrapidnews-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dailyrapidnews.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/pompeo-rapid-news-rapidnews-US-imposes-fresh-sanctions-on-Iran-in-final-days-of-Trump-presidency-dailyrapidnews-768x509.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/>U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Washington had sanctioned seven companies, including Chinese-based Jiangyin Mascot Special Steel Co and UAE-based Accenture Building Materials, and two people for shipping steel to or from Iran.<\/p>\n<p>He said Iran\u2019s Marine Industries Organization, Aerospace Industries Organization and the Iran Aviation Industries Organization had also been blacklisted over conventional arms proliferation.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement later on Friday, Pompeo said he was also increasing the scope of metals-related sanctions against Iran administered by the State Department.<\/p>\n<p>Those who knowingly transfer 15 materials which the State Department says are used in connection with Iran\u2019s nuclear, military or ballistic missile programs, including certain types of aluminum and steel, would be subject to sanctions, he said.<\/p>\n<p>During his four years in office, Trump has tried to force Tehran back into talks over its nuclear and ballistic missile programs and its activities in the Middle East. Saying the agreement did not go far enough, Trump in 2018 quit an Iran nuclear deal, which Tehran struck with world powers in 2015 to rein in its nuclear program in return for sanctions relief.<\/p>\n<p>Democratic President-elect Joe Biden, who will succeed Trump on Wednesday, has said he will return to the 2015 nuclear pact if Iran resumes strict compliance with it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States on Friday imposed sanctions on companies in Iran, China and the United<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v18.4.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>US 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