Reuters - The United States on Friday said it has seized four Iranian fuel shipments en route to Venezuela and confiscated the cargoes, disrupting a key supply line for both Tehran and Caracas as they defied U.S. sanctions. With the assistance of foreign partners, this seized property is now in U.S. custody, the Justice Department said in a statement,...

Reuters - The U.S. Justice Department said on Tuesday it had charged five people in Texas and New York with conspiring to violate a law on international commerce by arranging to purchase sanctioned Iranian oil and sell it to a refinery in China. The defendants include Daniel Ray Lane, president of privately held STACK Royalties, LLC a Texas-based ...

Buzz Feed - An anti-Iran bill passed in the House this month with the support of the powerful pro-Israel lobbying group the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) is unconstitutional, according to a Justice Department memo obtained by BuzzFeed News. The determination is a setback for legislation Republicans hope will expose Democrats ...

Tehran, Aug 10, IRNA US State Department spokeswoman Elizabeth Trudeau has said that the letter sent by the former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to US President Barack Obama was referred to the Justice Department. According to the New York Post, she said, We have seen the letter reportedly sent from former President Ahmadinejad to President ...

(Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department said on Wednesday that Schlumberger Oilfield Holdings had plead guilty to violating U.S. sanctions related to Iran and Sudan and would pay a $237.2 million fine. "For years, in a variety of ways, this foreign company facilitated trade with Iran and Sudan from Sugar Land, Texas," Justice Department Undersecretary ...