🔸 The US Treasury Department presented the Russian financial network "A7", which Washington says helped Iran evade sanctions, sell oil, and supply weapons, as a "significant transnational criminal organization" and imposed sanctions on it.
The ministry announced that the "A7" network, through groups of intermediary companies in various countries, made payments related to sanctioned institutions appear as normal business transactions, thereby providing the ability to transfer funds outside the conventional banking network.
According to the US Treasury Department, the Central Bank of Iran and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps were among the institutions that used the routes created by this network for international money transfers. Washington also says that intermediary companies related to "A7" were involved in the sale of Iranian oil and efforts related to weapons procurement.