2 convicted to attempting to break sanctions against Iranian oil


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The Iranian oil supertanker Grace 1, which was intercepted by British Royal Marines and Gibraltar's police in the Strait of Gibraltar, sails near Algeciras, Spain, in 2019. Recently, two men were arrested trying to evade sanctions against Iranian oil, Justice Depatment officials said. File Photo by A. Carrasco Ragel/EPA-EFE Nov. 17 (UPI) -- The Justice Department announced on Friday that a Pennsylvania federal court convicted two Texas-based men this week for trying to bypass U.S. sanctions to illegally sell oil from Iran. A federal court convicted Zhenyu "Bill" Wang, 42, of Dallas, and Daniel Ray Lane, 42, of McKinney, Texas,...