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US Treasury secretary rules out new extension of Russian oil waiver

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US Sanctions Policy on Russian/Iranian Oil

US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent stated that Washington has no plans to renew waivers allowing the purchase of Russian oil and oil derivatives currently at sea, and also indicated no plans for a new general license for Iranian oil. The article notes that while previous sanctions were lifted and updated, the Treasury later published a license extending sales of Russian-origin oil loaded before April 17 until May 16.

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“In an interview with The Associated Press, US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Washington had no plans of renewing its waiver that allows purchasing Russian oil and oil derivatives that are currently at sea.”
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Multiple web search results indicate that Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent stated that Washington does not plan to renew the waiver allowing the purchase of Russian oil already at sea. Sources confirm this statement regarding the non-renewal of the waiver.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Bessent is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Don Bessent (1931–1990), American baseball player Hattie Bessent (1908–2015), American psychiatric nurse Scott Bessent (born 1962), US T…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bessent
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Scott Kenneth Homer Bessent ( BESS-ənt; born August 21, 1962) is an American businessman and government official serving since 2025 as the 79th United States secretary of the treasury. Bessent was a p…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Bessent
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The United States secretary of the treasury is the head of the United States Department of the Treasury, and is the chief financial officer of the federal government of the United States. The secretar…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Secretary_of_the…
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“Bessent also said the US Department of the Treasury was not planning to issue a new general license that would allow purchasing Iranian oil loaded on tankers.”
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While the claim attributes a statement about not issuing a new general license for Iranian oil to Bessent, the provided web search results do not independently corroborate this specific statement regarding Iranian oil. The sources are general or focus on the Russian waiver.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Bessent is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Don Bessent (1931–1990), American baseball player Hattie Bessent (1908–2015), American psychiatric nurse Scott Bessent (born 1962), US T…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bessent
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Scott Kenneth Homer Bessent ( BESS-ənt; born August 21, 1962) is an American businessman and government official serving since 2025 as the 79th United States secretary of the treasury. Bessent was a p…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Bessent
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The United States secretary of the treasury is the head of the United States Department of the Treasury, and is the chief financial officer of the federal government of the United States. The secretar…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Secretary_of_the…
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“On March 12, the US Treasury lifted sanctions on operations for the sale of Russian oil and oil products loaded onto ships before that date.”
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Multiple web search results state that the US Treasury lifted sanctions on Russian oil loaded onto ships as of March 12. This is reported across different search snippets.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Russian shadow fleet is a clandestine network of hundreds of vessels operated by Russia to evade sanctions, following the enactment of 2022 Russian crude oil price cap sanctions by the G7 countrie…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_shadow_fleet
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — SouthFront (sometimes written South Front) is a multilingual website registered in Russia and based in Crimea. It has been accused of being an outlet for disinformation and propaganda under the contr…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Department of the Treasury (USDT) is the national treasury and finance department of the federal government of the United States. It is one of 15 current U.S. government departments. The treasury …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_th…
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“On March 19, it updated the license, prohibiting transactions with some Russian regions, North Korea, and Cuba.”
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The evidence mentions OFAC issuing a license on April 17, but the specific details about updating the license on March 19, prohibiting transactions with Russian regions, North Korea, and Cuba, are not independently corroborated by multiple sources. The evidence is limited to general OFAC/sanctions context.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Russian oligarchs (Russian: олигархи, romanized: oligarkhi) are business oligarchs of the former Soviet republics who rapidly accumulated wealth in the 1990s via the Russian privatisation that followe…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_oligarchs
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — SouthFront (sometimes written South Front) is a multilingual website registered in Russia and based in Crimea. It has been accused of being an outlet for disinformation and propaganda under the contr…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SouthFront
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Department of the Treasury (USDT) is the national treasury and finance department of the federal government of the United States. It is one of 15 current U.S. government departments. The treasury …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_th…
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“The permit expired on April 11.”
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The web search results mention an expiration date of April 11, but this date is associated with a different waiver (FMCSA's medical card waiver) in one result, and the context is not consistently confirmed across multiple independent sources regarding the oil permit expiration.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — April is the fourth month of the year in the Gregorian and Julian calendars. Its length is 30 days. April is commonly associated with the season of spring in the Northern Hemisphere, and autumn in the…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — April 14 is the 104th day of the year (105th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 261 days remain until the end of the year.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_14
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — April Fools' Day or April Fool's Day (rarely called All Fools' Day) is an annual custom in many Western countries on the 1st of April consisting of practical jokes, hoaxes, and pranks. Jokesters often…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_Fools'_Day
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“At a briefing at the White House on April 15, Bessent said that Washington had no plans to extend exemptions from its sanctions on Russian and Iranian oil on tankers at sea.”
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Two web search results corroborate that on April 15, Bessent stated that Washington had no plans to extend exemptions from sanctions on Russian and Iranian oil at sea. A third result supports the general indication that the US was unlikely to extend such exemptions.
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web search NEUTRAL — This was announced on April 15 by US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessant. "We will not renew the general license for Russian oil, and we will not renew the general license for Iranian oil. It was oil tha…
https://en.iz.ru/en/2079718/2026-04-15/united-states-does-no…
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web search NEUTRAL — Ukraine regards exemptions from the sanctions regime for the Russian Federation, introduced by the United States after the start of hostilities against Iran, as inappropriate. This was stated in Washi…
https://mezha.net/eng/bukvy/ukraine_rejects_us/
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web search NEUTRAL — US Decision on Oil Sanctions. On Wednesday, the White House indicated that the United States is unlikely to extend the exemption from sanctions related to the purchase of oil from Russia and Iran.
https://www.msn.com/en-in/news/world/us-may-not-extend-sanct…
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“However, on April 17, the Treasury published a license that allowed until May 16 to sell, transport, and unload oil and oil products of Russian origin loaded onto tankers before April 17.”
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Multiple web search results confirm that on April 17, the Treasury published a license allowing the sale, transport, and unloading of Russian-origin oil and oil products loaded onto tankers before April 17, valid until May 16.
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web search NEUTRAL — The statement came after the U.S. Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control issued General License 134B, allowing transactions related to the sale, delivery and unloading of Russian oil and petroleu…
https://english.nv.ua/nation/ukraine-envoy-urges-u-s-to-rest…
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web search NEUTRAL — On Friday, April 17, the US Department of the Treasury allowed operations involving the sale, transportation, and unloading of Russian-origin oil and petroleum products loaded onto tankers before Apri…
https://tass.com/economy/2119619
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web search NEUTRAL — This waiver, granted on Friday, April 17, extends the authorisation for countries to purchase Russian crude oil and petroleum products that were loaded onto vessels prior to its issuance. This latest …
https://thecsrjournal.in/us-extends-waiver-sale-russian-oil-…
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