Tanker

American sentenced to prison for violating sanctions against Iran

The 72-year-old American violated US sanctions against Iran through his shipping company East & West Shipping and is now going to jail.
Stock photo. The image shows a tanker sailing under the Iranian flag, but neither the ship nor the person in the image has any relation to the case in question. | Photo: Juan Carlos Hernandez/AP/Ritzau Scanpix
Stock photo. The image shows a tanker sailing under the Iranian flag, but neither the ship nor the person in the image has any relation to the case in question. | Photo: Juan Carlos Hernandez/AP/Ritzau Scanpix
by TOMAS KRISTIANSEN

72-year-old Iranian-American Behrouz Mokhtari has been sentenced to 41 months in prison and three years of probation for violating US sanctions against Iran.

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