Iran is helping Syria to export millions of dollars of oil, circumventing European Union sanctions that have effectively blocked the sale of Syrian crude since September, people familiar with the matter told Dow Jones Newswires this week.
Iran is helping Syria to export millions of dollars of oil,
circumventing European Union sanctions that have effectively blocked the sale
of Syrian crude since September, people familiar with the matter told Dow Jones
Newswires this week.
Shipbrokers said two Iranian-owned ships, the Tour and the Amin, have picked up
crude from
Syria
in
the last two weeks, while a third, the Alvan, left
Syria
in
early April carrying a cargo of motor oil.
One source familiar with the matter valued the three shipments at around $200
million.
Oil exports from
Syria
all
but dried up after the EU imposed an oil embargo on the country in September in
response to a crackdown on opposition to the regime by President Bashar
al-Assad.
Syria
pumps
about 370,000 barrels of oil a day, about 150,000 of it exported, according to
the International Energy Agency. Prior to the EU sanctions, those oil exports
made up about one-third of
Syria
's
export income.
Iran
itself is also the subject of increasingly tight sanctions, as Western powers
seek to halt its nuclear program.
Both the Tour and the Amin, which are each capable of carrying 1 million
barrels of crude, were recently registered in
Bolivia
,
after they were stripped of their Maltese registration for violating EU
sanctions. The Alvan is registered in
Barbados
.
The final destination of the vessels is not currently know. The Tour is
currently en route to the
Persian Gulf
and
is set to arrive on April 13, shipbrokers said. It isn't currently possible to
track the Amin, they said.
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