{"id":289819,"date":"2019-08-31T07:09:20","date_gmt":"2019-08-31T07:09:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=289819"},"modified":"2019-08-31T07:13:19","modified_gmt":"2019-08-31T07:13:19","slug":"us-blacklists-iranian-oil-tanker-adrian-darya-1-sanctions-indian-captain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/us-blacklists-iranian-oil-tanker-adrian-darya-1-sanctions-indian-captain\/","title":{"rendered":"US blacklists Iranian oil tanker Adrian Darya 1; sanctions Indian captain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The US Department of the Treasury has imposed sanctions on Akhilesh Kumar, the captain of Adrian Darya 1 (formerly Grace 1), the world\u2019s most tracked oil tanker, at the centre of a confrontation between the United States and Iran and also black-listed the oil super tanker. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe US Department of the Treasury\u2019s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) took action today against Adrian Darya 1, an oil tanker transporting 2.1 million barrels of Iranian crude oil ultimately benefitting Iran\u2019s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-Qods Force (IRGC-QF). The Adrian Darya 1 is being identified as blocked property pursuant to Executive Order (E.O.) 13224, which targets terrorists and those providing support to terrorism or acts of terrorism. As part of today\u2019s action, the Adrian Darya 1\u2019s captain, Akhilesh Kumar, is also designated pursuant to E.O. 13224,\u201d it said in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US Department of the Treasury has imposed sanctions on Akhilesh Kumar, the captain of Adrian Darya 1 (formerly Grace 1), the world\u2019s most tracked oil tanker, at the centre of a confrontation between the United States and Iran and also black-listed the oil super tanker. \u201cThe US Department of the Treasury\u2019s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) took action today against Adrian Darya 1, an oil tanker transporting 2.1 million barrels of Iranian crude oil ultimately benefitting Iran\u2019s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-Qods Force (IRGC-QF). The Adrian Darya 1 is being identified as blocked property pursuant to Executive Order (E.O.) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-289819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289819\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}