Support For Syria: US sanctions Iranian companies

SAD Import Export and two others also blacklisted for ties to Iran’s DIO, defense ministry.

WASHINGTON:

The United States on Friday sanctioned four Iranian companies, including one accused of providing weapons to the Syrian regime’s crackdown.

The Treasury Department said SAD Import Export Company shipped weapons to the Syrian Armed Forces on behalf of Iran’s Defense Industries Organisation, which it accused of being used by the government to “assist” the Syrian regime’s crackdown.

SAD Import Export and two others, Chemical Industries and Development of Materials Group and Marine Industries Organisation, were also blacklisted for their ties to Iran’s Defence Industries Organisation and its defense ministry.

Published in The Express Tribune, December 22^nd, 2012.