{"id":7839,"date":"2017-07-31T23:24:37","date_gmt":"2017-08-01T04:24:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/?p=7839"},"modified":"2017-07-31T23:24:37","modified_gmt":"2017-08-01T04:24:37","slug":"amazon-says-it-is-under-investigation-for-selling-goods-to-iranian-embassy-others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/2017\/07\/31\/amazon-says-it-is-under-investigation-for-selling-goods-to-iranian-embassy-others\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon says it is under investigation for selling goods to Iranian embassy, others"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_7840\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7840\" style=\"width: 704px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-7840 \" src=\"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/imrs.php_-300x207.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"704\" height=\"486\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/imrs.php_-300x207.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/imrs.php_-1024x708.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/imrs.php_.jpg 1484w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 704px) 100vw, 704px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7840\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Amazon.com says it sold $34,000 worth of products to people and entities with ties to the Iranian government. (Paul Sakuma\/AP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"color: #666699;\">Washington Post <span class=\"pb-timestamp\">July 31, <\/span>2017:<\/span> Amazon.com is under\u00a0federal investigation for\u00a0possibly violating U.S. sanctions on Iran, the online giant said Friday <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sec.gov\/Archives\/edgar\/data\/1018724\/000101872417000100\/amzn-20170630x10q.htm\">in a filing<\/a> with the Securities and Exchange Commission.<\/p>\n<p>The company says it sold and delivered about $34,000 worth of products \u2014 including books, software, consumer electronics, musical instruments and jewelry \u2014 to an Iranian embassy, as well as to others with links to the Iranian government, between January 2012 and June 2017. The company says it also sold about $300 worth of items to a person on the U.S. government\u2019s terrorism watch list.\u00a0(Jeffrey P. Bezos, the founder and chief executive of Amazon, owns The Washington Post.)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are unable accurately to calculate the net profit attributable to these transactions,\u201d Amazon said in the filing. \u201cWe do not plan to continue selling to these accounts in the future.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Amazon\u00a0said it has \u201cvoluntarily reported\u201d those transactions to the U.S. Treasury and Commerce departments, which are leading the investigation, and that the review could lead to \u201cthe imposition of penalties.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The company did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<p>President Obama in 2012 signed the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.treasury.gov\/resource-center\/sanctions\/Documents\/hr_1905_pl_112_158.pdf\">Iran Threat Reduction and Syria Human Rights Act<\/a> as part of an effort to get Iran to give up its nuclear\u00a0weapons program. As part of the act, public companies that knowingly do business with Iran are required to disclose those activities to the government.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, the Treasury Department\u00a0fined\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.treasury.gov\/resource-center\/sanctions\/CivPen\/Documents\/20170720_exxonmobil.pdf\">Exxon Mobil<\/a>\u00a0$2 million for violating U.S. sanctions on Russia. Exxon has said it will challenge the fine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Washington Post July 31, 2017: Amazon.com is under\u00a0federal investigation for\u00a0possibly violating U.S. sanctions on Iran, the online giant said Friday in a filing with the <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/2017\/07\/31\/amazon-says-it-is-under-investigation-for-selling-goods-to-iranian-embassy-others\/\" title=\"Amazon says it is under investigation for selling goods to Iranian embassy, others\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7840,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[35,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7839"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7839"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7841,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7839\/revisions\/7841"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}