The Biden administration has told Beijing it will enforce Trump-era sanctions against Iranian oil as shipments from the Islamic regime to China have soared, a senior US official said.
Iranian oil exports to China have been increasing “for some time now”, the senior administration official familiar with the Iran issue told the Financial Times in an interview.
Some observers had questioned whether the rise indicated that the Biden administration was turning a blind eye to the trade in an effort to encourage Tehran to join negotiations over a 2015 nuclear accord that the US abandoned in 2018. The Biden administration has made returning to the deal a priority.