The five Iranians that captained a fleet of gasoline-laden product tankers to Venezuela this month and last have landed on the US blacklist.

The US Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets control levied sanctions against the masters — Ali Danaei Kensari, Mohsen Gohardehi, Alireza Rahnavard, Reza Vaziri and Hamidreza Yahya Zadeh. The quintet were in charge of the ships that carried more than 1.5m