S.Africa says has suspended Iran oil imports MyZA

PRETORIA, March 22 (Reuters) – South Africa has suspended
almost all of its oil imports from Iran and intends to abide by
a U.S. request to significantly drop its supplies from the
state, a senior diplomat said on Thursday.

“(To my knowledge), no Iranian oil is flowing into our
country,” deputy foreign minister Ebrahim Ebrahim told a news
conference.

“If there is any, it is very little.”

South Africa is on a State Department list of 12 countries
that buy Iranian oil and could be subject to U.S. sanctions
unless they significantly cut purchases.

(Reporting by Jon Herskovitz, editing by Ed Stoddard)