US sanctions 15 entities, 14 ships for trading Iranian oil, State Dept says

The United States on Friday announced new sanctions on 15 entities and 14 shadow fleet vessels to curb Iran's oil exports.

President Donald Trump is "committed to driving down the Iranian regime's illicit oil and petrochemical exports under the administration's maximum pressure campaign," State Department spokesman Tommy Pigott said in a statement.

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The sanctions came a short while after indirect US-Iran talks, through mediator Oman, ended on Friday.