Report: Rex Tillerson’s ExxonMobil Did Business With Iran Despite Sanctions

As President-elect Donald Trump’s Secretary of State nominee Rex Tillerson prepares for his Senate confirmation hearing on Wednesday, questions about the oil executive’s business activities with terrorist safe-havens Iran, Syria, and Sudan have emerged, potentially placing Tillerson’s confirmation in jeopardy. According to a report by USA Today, “ExxonMobil did business with Iran, Syria and Sudan through a European subsidiary while President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for Secretary of State was a top executive of the oil giant and those countries were under U.S. sanctions as state sponsors of terrorism, Securities and Exchange Commission filings show.”

Sales to Iran and other state-sponsors of terrorism were reportedly conducted via a European subsidiary established by the American petrol company.