Operation Economic Outcast Neutralizes Iranian Regime’s Remaining Shadow Fleet Network

Sanctions Target Iran’s Remaining Illicit Fleet and its Global Support NetworkWASHINGTON—Today, as part of Operation Economic Outcast, the U.S. Department of the Treasury is targeting the remnants of Iran’s shadow fleet: the aging network of tankers the regime relies on to move billions of dollars’ worth of petroleum and petroleum products to foreign markets. Today’s action effectively neutralizes the vast majority of Iran’s remaining shadow fleet network. “Treasury is starving the tyrannical regime in Tehran of the money it uses to wage war in the region, and we will continue exposing those who enable the regime’s oil sales,” said Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent. “No enabler of Iranian sanctions evasion is safe from the full force of Treasury’s authorities.”With the success of the U.S.