US to Boost Pressure on China to Stop Importing Iran Oil, Envoy Says
- Talks with China to be ‘intensified,’ says Iran envoy Malley
- ‘We’re not fine with it,’ Malley says of rising Iran oil sales
Robert Malley
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The US said it will increase pressure on China to stop buying Iranian oil, as the White House seeks to enforce sanctions aimed at curbing the Islamic Republic’s nuclear activities.
“China is the main destination of illicit exports by Iran” and talks to dissuade Beijing from such purchases will be “intensified,” Robert Malley, the Biden administration’s special envoy for Iran, told Bloomberg Television on Monday.