US special envoy to Iran Brian Hawke said on Monday that his country's sanctions against Iran would not damage world oil markets, stressing that the mullahs' regime has suffered heavy financial losses in recent months.
Speaking on the first day of the second package of US sanctions targeting Iran's energy sector, Hawk said the sanctions would not lead to a rise in world oil prices, the Reuters news agency reported.
He revealed the Iranian regime's loss of about $ 2 billion in oil revenues since May, the month when the administration of US President Donald Trump announced its withdrawal from the nuclear deal in 2015.
"We have taken out one million barrels of oil from the market, which alone will cut the revenues of the Iranian oil system by two billion dollars," he said.
He pointed out that more than 100 major companies, withdrew from the Iranian market as a result of sanctions.
The American diplomat stressed that the biggest obstacle to the delivery of humanitarian aid to the Iranian people is the Iranian regime itself.
"The Iranian regime is spending money on its foreign adventures and supporting its allies in the region instead of its people," he said. "They do not want their people or the international community to know where the money goes."
He said that international banks are afraid to deal with Iran because of the spread of corruption in the banking system there, noting that "this corruption is intended to cover how the system to spend money."
"The Iranian regime is spending money in Lebanon, Iraq, Syria and Yemen instead of spending it on its people," the US envoy said. "The Iranian regime has raised signs saying: 'Invest here, not in Syria.'
