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Tag: National Iranian Oil Company

Posted inIndonesia

No China-Iran sanctions-busting allowed in Indonesia

by John McBeth January 27, 2021January 31, 2021

JAKARTA – The discovery of two super-tankers conducting a sanctions-busting transfer of Iranian crude oil off the west coast of Kalimantan underscores the heightened surveillance operations conducted by the Indonesian Navy and Coast Guard across the vast archipelago over the past four years. “This is new to them,” says one naval analyst, noting that the mid-ocean […]

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