Nations buying oil from Iran beyond accepted levels will face sanctions: US

Nations buying oil from Iran beyond accepted levels will face sanctions: US



US President Donald Trump last month refused to give waivers to countries like India from buying oil from Iran, in an attempt to reduce Iran's oil exports to zero
Current Affair:-Any endeavors to import Iranian unrefined petroleum past the acknowledged dimensions consulted from November to May will be authorized, the US has cautioned, in the midst of reports that India and China were looking for approaches to purchase oil from Tehran.
US President Donald Trump a month ago would not offer waivers to nations like India from purchasing oil from Iran, trying to lessen Iran's oil fares to zero.
The US on Tuesday emphasized its situation after the media reports from New Delhi, citing anonymous government authorities, said that India was seeing approaches to resume oil imports from Iran in spite of the US sanctions.
A week ago, India's Ambassador to the US Harsh Vardhan Shringla said India had prevented purchasing oil from Iran after May 2 when the US finished its waivers that permitted the top purchasers of Iranian oil, including India, to proceed with their imports for a half year.
"There will be no more oil waivers conceded and the main oil that would have been allowed would have been under the top that we arranged. That top was arranged, it was to keep running for a period from November of 2018 until May of 2019," Brian Hook, Special Representative for Iran and Senior Policy Advisor to the Secretary of State, told correspondents amid a telephone call on Thursday.
He said once the nations have achieved the top of what was arranged, that would be the cutoff of the oil that US would allow to travel through and would not be authorized.
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