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  2. Oct 25, 2023Of the 102 extra-large tankers that have ferried Iranian oil in 2023, 42 did not do so last year and 27 have no history of ever carrying dodgy oil, according to Kpler, a ship-tracking firm.
  3. Jan 13, 2025O n November 25th the Elva, a tanker flagged in São Tomé and Príncipe, clandestinely picked up 2m barrels of Iranian crude off Malaysia's coast.Sailing from there to north-east China, the ...
  4. Jun 22, 2023Most of that oil is sold at a discount and shipped via third countries on a "ghost fleet" of dodgy tankers to China. Such transactions technically run foul of American sanctions—but only if ...
  5. Oct 17, 2024Smuggling oil on hundreds of tankers is hard. Covertly laundering billions of dollars via the global banking system is even harder. America keeps a watch on any bank, even foreign, that processes ...
  6. In 2018 and 2019 Iran and its proxies staged a series of attacks in the GCC, sabotaging oil tankers near Fujairah, a UAE statelet, and hitting Saudi oil facilities with drones and cruise missiles ...
  7. In May saboteurs blew holes in four oil tankers anchored off the port of Fujairah in the United Arab Emirates. Two more tankers were attacked as they sailed in the Gulf of Oman on June 13th.
  8. The so-called tanker war between Iraq and Iran in the 1980s ravaged shipping in the Gulf. Though most attacks were from the air, the Guards honed the use of mine-planting boats—similar to the ...

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