Below you will find pages that utilize the taxonomy term “Oil Smuggling”
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Dark Tankers: How Iran Moves Oil and Why It Matters for Strait Security
A tanker that does not appear on tracking screens is not invisible. It is simply operating in the gap between the legal obligation to broadcast its position and the practical inability of enforcement authorities to impose consequences for failing to do so. Iran has exploited that gap systematically and at scale, building a sanctions evasion infrastructure that has kept its oil revenues flowing through periods when official exports were near zero, and learning, in the process, the operational techniques of maritime concealment that have military implications beyond their immediate commercial function.