{"id":290518,"date":"2019-09-05T05:58:40","date_gmt":"2019-09-05T05:58:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=290518"},"modified":"2019-09-05T06:04:51","modified_gmt":"2019-09-05T06:04:51","slug":"us-sanctions-mehdi-group-affiliates-alleges-aiding-sale-of-iranian-oil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/us-sanctions-mehdi-group-affiliates-alleges-aiding-sale-of-iranian-oil\/","title":{"rendered":"US sanctions Mehdi Group, affiliates; alleges aiding sale of Iranian oil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mumbai-based Mehdi Group, its directors and officials, its ten subsidiaries, and shell companies have been sanctioned by the US on Wednesday as part of a vast \u201coil-for-terror\u201d network of firms, ships and individuals allegedly directed by and financially supporting Iran\u2019s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) that supplied Syria with oil worth hundreds of millions of dollars in breach of US sanctions. <\/p>\n<p>Mehdi Group and its directors\/officials, Ali Ghadeer Mehdi, Ali Zaheer Mohammad Mehdi, Anuj Bhardwaj have managed vessels and found additional ones to move Iranian oil, the US Department of the Treasury\u2019s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) wrote in a September 4 advisory to the maritime community, warning them of the risks involved with participating in \u201cillicit schemes such as the IRGC\u2019s oil-for-terror shipping network\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mumbai-based Mehdi Group, its directors and officials, its ten subsidiaries, and shell companies have been sanctioned by the US on Wednesday as part of a vast \u201coil-for-terror\u201d network of firms, ships and individuals allegedly directed by and financially supporting Iran\u2019s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) that supplied Syria with oil worth hundreds of millions of dollars in breach of US sanctions. Mehdi Group and its directors\/officials, Ali Ghadeer Mehdi, Ali Zaheer Mohammad Mehdi, Anuj Bhardwaj have managed vessels and found additional ones to move Iranian oil, the US Department of the Treasury\u2019s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) wrote in [&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-290518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290518","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=290518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290518\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}