Despite America’s strict blockade outside Hormuz, Iran is selling crude oil heavily. This process of selling oil is being carried out through a secret fleet. If we talk about statistics Hormuz After the complete blockade, Iran has sold an estimated 70 million barrels of oil. Iran is selling an average of 1.5 million barrels of oil through the shadow fleet.
wall street journal According to Iran, Iran is selling oil through shadow fleet. Iran is using old oil tankers for this. Most of the oil has been sold to China. After this, Indonesia and Malaysia.
How is Iran doing despite the blockade?
1. According to the report, Iran is first filling its crude oil in old tankers. These tankers are being removed from Hormuz together. After Hormuz, Iranian tankers move rapidly towards China. To protect the tankers, some soldiers of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard are sent along by boat.
2. Iran erases the numbers of its old oil tankers in ink. So that American satellites cannot scan it. The upper items are covered with black tarpaulin. Also, after leaving the Gulf of Oman, it establishes contact with the countries whose territorial waters it enters.
3. Iran is taking risks to supply oil from old oil tankers. Iran sends several oil tankers simultaneously, so that America cannot easily attack it. However, many times its oil tankers have also come on America’s radar. So far 2 oil tankers have been destroyed outside Hormuz.
Sells 1.5 million barrels of oil every day
On April 13, America had announced a blockade in the Gulf of Oman against Iran’s Hormuz Block. To make the blockade outside Hormuz successful, America had launched warships in the Gulf of Oman, but America could not get success in it.
Iran is selling 1.5 million barrels of oil every day through old tankers. That means Iran has sold 70 million barrels of oil in the last 45 days. If seen on a monthly basis, Iran sold 45 million barrels of oil last month.
According to Wall Street, Iran had sold oil worth $31 billion in the year 2025 despite US sanctions.
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