U.S. Seized Iranian Weapons and Fuel Shipments The Iran Primer

On October 29, the Justice Department announced that it had seized Iranian weapons bound for Yemen and sold 1.1 million barrels of Iranian oil bound for Venezuela. The government also unsealed two civil forfeiture complaints for the goods, which were intercepted in 2019 and 2020. The seizures were part of the Trump administration’s efforts to curb Iran’s intervention in the Middle East and cut off revenue streams to the regime.