US revokes temporary sanctions waiver on Iranian oil after vessels attacked in Hormuz

The US Treasury Department on Tuesday revoked a licence that temporarily lifted oil sanctions on Iran, calling Tehran’s actions in the Strait of Hormuz “wholly unacceptable”.
“Iran’s actions in the Strait were wholly unacceptable to the United States and will be met with consequences,” a US official told Agence France-Presse, after attacks on tankers in the key waterway.
The waiver announced in June had originally allowed the Islamic republic to produce, sell and deliver crude oil and related...