U.S. Department of State\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
For Immediate Release\u00a0<\/p>\n
STATEMENT BY TOMMY PIGOTT, SPOKESPERSON\u00a0<\/p>\n
October 8, 2026\u00a0<\/p>\n
Operation Economic Outcast Sanctions on Iran\u2019s Shadow Fleet Network\u00a0<\/p>\n
Under Operation Economic Outcast, the United States is using every diplomatic and economic tool available to isolate the Iranian regime, sever its economic lifelines, and protect the United States, our partners, and freedom of navigation.<\/p>\n
Today, the Department of State is taking action to dismantle Iran\u2019s shadow fleet and the Iranian regime\u2019s ability to use the illicit oil trade to fund its malign activities. The Department of State is sanctioning ten entities, six individuals, and five vessels involved in the trade of Iranian-origin petroleum or petrochemical products.<\/p>\n
Additionally, the Department of the Treasury is sanctioning 17 entities and their shadow fleet vessels. These measures will deprive the Iranian regime of funds and prevent it from using the shadow fleet to transport Iranian petroleum and petrochemicals and evade U.S. sanctions.<\/p>\n
All Department of State targets are being sanctioned pursuant to Executive Order (E.O.) 13846<\/a>, which authorizes and reimposes certain sanctions with respect to Iran. Treasury\u2019s action was taken\u00a0pursuant to\u00a0Executive Order (E.O.) 13902, which targets the Iranian petroleum sector, among other key sectors of the Iranian economy.\u00a0 For more information on today\u2019s action, please see the Department of the Treasury\u2019s press release<\/a> and State\u2019s Fact Sheet<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"U.S. Department of State\u00a0\u00a0 For Immediate Release\u00a0 STATEMENT BY TOMMY PIGOTT, SPOKESPERSON\u00a0 October 8, 2026\u00a0 Operation Economic Outcast…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":875630,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,368501,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-875629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-near-east-and-north-africa","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=875629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875629\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/875630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=875629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=875629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=875629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}