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Iraqi-British national sanctioned for ‘smuggling oil to fund Iran’

A British national, Salim Ahmed Said, has been sanctioned for allegedly running an oil smuggling scheme to benefit Iranian terrorism, according to U.S. officials.
Said reportedly misrepresented Iranian petroleum as Iraqi crude, using forged documents to evade sanctions since 2020.
American authorities claim Said's operations have sent cash to Iran to finance the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, involving vessel-to-vessel transfers.
British authorities have not commented on Said's case despite the U.S. sanctions announced on July 3, focusing on disrupting networks benefiting Iranian terrorism.

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