This was reported in a statement by the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) of the US Treasury.

The United States has put eight legal entities on the anti-Iran sanctions list.

The list includes several Iranian companies, as well as a legal entity from the UAE, China and Germany.

It became known the day before that the United States imposed sanctions on five captains of Iranian ships that supplied fuel to Venezuela. Iran called the new US sanctions a failure of maximum pressure tactics.