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File: Vessels identified as the Virgo, left, and the Suez Rajan, by the advocacy group United Against Nuclear Iran, are seen in the South China Sea on February 13, 2022. (Planet Labs PBC via AP)
August 28, 2023, 6:01 pm
Iran summons Swiss envoy over US seizure of its oil now docked in Texas
Tehran objects to takeover of Suez Rajan as ‘completely unproductive’ as countries try to work toward exchange of American prisoners for release of frozen Iranian assets
By Amir Vahdat and Jon Gambrell
Illustrative: A seized oil tanker Niovi off the coast of Bandar Abbas, Iran, May 6, 2023. (Planet Labs PBC via AP)
May 7, 2023, 11:58 am
Satellite images show 2 oil tankers seized by Iran anchored near naval base
Ship flying flags of Marshall Islands and Panama seen at Iranian port Bandar Abbas; meanwhile, another thought to be carrying Iranian crude disappears from anchorage off Singapore
By Jon Gambrell
The Lighthouse Winmore, chartered by Taiwanese company Billions Bunker Group Corp., is seen at sea off South Korea's Yeosu port on December 29, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / YONHAP)
December 30, 2017, 8:39 am
Ship crew questioned in S. Korea for sanctions-breaking oil transfer to North
The Hong Kong vessel is one of 10 the US has asked the Security Council to blacklist for violating restrictions against Pyongyang
By AFP
Iranian gas infrastructure in the South Pars field. (YouTube/Ministry of Petroleum of Iran)
November 7, 2016, 5:51 pm
Iran to ink $6 billion gas deal with France’s Total
In first major signing with Western company since nuclear deal, Tehran to develop offshore field with consortium that includes China
By AFP
US Secretary of State John Kerry, left, talks with Italy's Foreign Minister Mario Monti, during a NATO foreign ministers meeting at NATO headquarters in Brussels, on Tuesday, April 23, 2013. (photo credit: AP Photo/Yves Logghe)
April 23, 2013, 2:44 pm
Kerry attends first NATO foreign minister confab
Syria and Afghanistan main items on US secretary of state’s agenda during meeting
An anti-Syrian regime activist stands in front of flames and black smoke from a bombed oil pipeline in Homs, Syria in February 2012 (photo credit: AP Photo/Local Coordination Committees in Syria)
April 22, 2013, 2:41 pm
EU set to ease Syria oil embargo to bolster rebels
German FM says move aimed to provide ‘stronger economic support’ to opposition
Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (photo credit: CC-BY-SA DragonFire1024/Wikipedia)
July 30, 2012, 4:13 am
Iranian leader: Beat sanctions with brains, not oil
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei calls for Islamic Republic to move economy away from oil to defeat embargo
Satellite view of the Strait of Hormuz with Iran on top and Gulf states including the United Arab Emirates below. (photo credit: NASA/Public domain)
July 23, 2012, 1:19 pm
Iranian general: Tehran has no plans to close Strait of Hormuz
Navy officer says strategic oil passage will remain open
A US helicopter towing a minesweeper in the Persian Gulf in 2006. (photo credit: CC-BY-SA, Marion Doss, Flickr)
July 15, 2012, 12:14 pm
Iranian ayatollah to have final say on closing Strait of Hormuz
Supreme leader holds fate of strategic oil transit route in his hands, official says
Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (photo credit: Kamran Jebreili/AP)
July 11, 2012, 5:43 pm
Top Iranian leader dismisses effect of Western sanctions
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei says Tehran is ‘immune’ to measures taken against it
An oil refinery in Tehran. (photo credit: AP/file)
From the WebJuly 11, 2012, 10:49 am
Sanctions force Iran to cut oilfield flow
Reuters: Western embargo has cost Tehran billions of dollars in lost revenue, forcing drastic measures
An oil refinery in Tehran. (photo credit: AP/file)
From the WebJuly 7, 2012, 3:55 pm
Iran plans to sell oil via consortium, evade ban
Reuters: 20 percent of Iran’s oil exports will go through this company says exporters’ union head
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (photo credit: Vahid Salemi/AP)
July 4, 2012, 12:53 am
Iran says EU oil embargo is ‘strongest’ sanction ever
Ahmadinejad, whose country relies on oil exports for about 80 percent of its foreign revenues, vows to ‘remove the weapon of oil from the enemy’s hand forever’
Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)
July 2, 2012, 9:05 am
Liberman says he hopes Iran will soon internalize that the West intends to stop its nuke program
Foreign minister says Tehran playing for time in nuclear talks but starting to feel economic pressure, praises new oil embargo
By Stuart Winer
Ali Akbar Salehi (photo credit: CC-BY Parmida76, Flickr)
June 27, 2012, 7:46 am
Iran foreign minister tells EU to rethink oil embargo
Ali Akbar Salehi says crisis-hit European nations are ‘on the wrong track’
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