On October 8, local time, news published on the US Treasury website showed that the US imposed a new round of sanctions on Iran. The targets of the sanctions included 17 ships transporting Iranian crude oil, petroleum products, and petrochemical products. US Treasury officials also said that the US side estimates that outside the scope of the US blockade of Iranian ports, there are still about 20 million barrels of Iranian crude oil stranded on ships. Some officials said that due to the US blockade and sanctions, Iran has stopped loading and unloading crude oil vessels.

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