In seeking to reduce Iran's oil exports to zero, the Trump administration is targeting the country's top revenue maker in its latest no-holds-barred move to scale back the clerical regime's influence.
WASHINGTON - The United States said Monday it would start imposing sanctions on friends such as India that buy Iranian oil, in its latest aggressive step to counter Tehran that could jeopardise US relationships.
They include India, which has warm ties with Washington but disagrees on the US insistence that Iran is a threat. The others - Greece, Italy, Japan, South Korea and Taiwan - have already heavily reduced their purchases from Iran.Trump last year withdrew the United States from an accord negotiated by his predecessor, Barack Obama, under which Iran drastically reduced its nuclear programme in return for promises of sanctions relief.
Just two weeks ago, Trump took another key step by designating Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards - who are in charge of preserving the regime and have amassed vast commercial interests - as a terrorist group, the first time such action has been taken against part of another government.
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