The economic penalties target the leaders of a bloody crackdown and companies that support Tehran’s illicit oil trade.

Venezuela’s oil decline began years before sanctions, but sanctions still hold the key to how much production could return and how quickly.

Businesspeople with investments in now-suspended inter-Korean projects on Wednesday called on the government to lift its unilateral sanctions imposed in 2010 that ban joint businesses with North Korea.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Thursday slapped sanctions on top Iranian officials behind the deadly protest crackdown as they rushed to move tens of millions of dollars out of the country.

The U.S. has imposed sanctions on four firms in Venezuela's oil sector and designated four additional oil tankers as blocked property

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The latest wave of sanctions targets oil traders and vessels that are helping prop up President Nicolás Maduro's regime, the Treasury Department said.

Named in the sanctions were Al Sharafi Oil Companies Services and Adeema Oil FZC, owned by Waleed Fathi Salam Baidhani and Arkan Mars Petroleum DMCC; Alsaa Petroleum and Shipping FZC, owned by Imran Asghar; Janat Al Anwar General Trading LLC; Zayd 'Ali Ahmed al-Sharafi; and New Ocean Trading FZE.