{"id":542035,"date":"2022-12-09T12:17:44","date_gmt":"2022-12-09T06:47:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=542035"},"modified":"2022-12-09T12:26:53","modified_gmt":"2022-12-09T06:56:53","slug":"us-hits-prominent-turkish-biz-executive-with-iranian-oil-sanctions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/us-hits-prominent-turkish-biz-executive-with-iranian-oil-sanctions\/","title":{"rendered":"US hits prominent Turkish biz executive with Iranian oil sanctions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Biden administration is imposing sanctions on a prominent Turkish businessman reportedly close to Turkey&#8217;s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan for violations of US restrictions on the sales of Iranian oil.<\/p>\n<p>The Treasury Department announced Thursday it was penalizing Sitki Ayan and a number of companies he and his family and associates control for facilitating the sale of hundreds of millions of dollars of Iranian oil for Iran&#8217;s Revolutionary Guard.<\/p>\n<p>Ayan and his firms have also laundered the proceeds of those sales for both the Guard and Lebanon&#8217;s Hezbollah movement, both of which are designated as foreign terrorist organizations by the US, Treasury said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Biden administration is imposing sanctions on a prominent Turkish businessman reportedly close to Turkey&#8217;s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan for violations of US restrictions on the sales of Iranian oil. The Treasury Department announced Thursday it was penalizing Sitki Ayan and a number of companies he and his family and associates control for facilitating the sale of hundreds of millions of dollars of Iranian oil for Iran&#8217;s Revolutionary Guard. Ayan and his firms have also laundered the proceeds of those sales for both the Guard and Lebanon&#8217;s Hezbollah movement, both of which are designated as foreign terrorist organizations by the [&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":[135,130,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-542035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542035","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=542035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542035\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=542035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=542035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=542035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}