Eyeing Iran, U.S. official says all alleged sanctions breaches taken seriously


  • World
  • Friday, 17 May 2019

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States takes all alleged sanctions violations seriously and will take action as appropriate, a State Department spokesman said on Friday, responding to a question about a tanker unloading Iranian fuel oil at a Chinese port.

Reuters on Thursday reported that a tanker carrying nearly 130,000 tonnes of Iranian fuel oil had unloaded its cargo into storage tanks near the Chinese city of Zhoushan.

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