{"id":1372233,"date":"2026-03-21T13:40:45","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T11:40:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/the-us-has-eased-sanctions-on-iranian-oil-but-theres-a-catch\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T13:40:45","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T11:40:45","slug":"the-us-has-eased-sanctions-on-iranian-oil-but-theres-a-catch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/the-us-has-eased-sanctions-on-iranian-oil-but-theres-a-catch\/","title":{"rendered":"The US has eased sanctions on Iranian oil, but there&#8217;s a catch."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The US Treasury Department has issued a temporary permit for the sale of Iranian oil already at sea to stabilize global energy prices.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced this on the <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SecScottBessent\/status\/2035131840604881359\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">X<\/a> network.<\/p>\n<p> He said the sanctions relief is short-term and applies only to Iranian oil already in tankers at sea as of March 20. He assured that Iran will experience difficulties accessing the revenues it has received.<\/p>\n<p> Bessent explained that this would help stabilize global energy prices. &#8220;The United States will quickly release approximately 140 million barrels of oil into global markets, expanding global energy supplies and helping relieve temporary supply pressures caused by Iran. Essentially, we will use Iranian barrels against Tehran to keep prices low,&#8221; he continued.<\/p>\n<p> As Pryamyi previously reported, <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/ssha-na-30-dniv-poslabyly-sanktsii-na-rosiysku-naftu\/\">the US had previously taken similar measures against Russian oil<\/a> , easing sanctions against it for 30 days and allowing the purchase of only oil that was already at sea as of March 12-13.<\/p>\n<p> Also follow <strong>&#8220;Pryamy&#8221;<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">X<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Instagram.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US Treasury Department has issued a temporary permit for the sale of Iranian oil already at sea to stabilize global energy prices. US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced this on the X network. He said the sanctions relief is short-term and applies only to Iranian oil already in tankers at sea as of March [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":1372225,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76874,76892],"class_list":["post-1372233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-war","category-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1372233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1372233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1372233\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1372225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1372233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1372233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}