🇺🇸The U.S. Treasury sanctioned nearly 60 Iran-linked entities, people, and vessels, identifying technology for potential secondary sanctions.

The Treasury action covered nearly 60 Iran-linked entities, individuals, and vessels associated with nuclear, missile, cyber, and oil networks. The Treasury also suspended general licenses that had permitted some remittance payments to Iran.

Five sectors were identified for potential secondary sanctions: digital assets, technology, gold, aviation, and shipping. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the measures broaden secondary-sanctions exposure and that parties facilitating transactions, including those in China, could be targeted.

Bessent said countries would receive defined but finite timelines to terminate activities identified by Treasury, including closing Iranian bank branches abroad. He also said the United States would block dollar access for parties laundering Iranian funds and pursue a “zero leakage” approach to sanctions enforcement.