Iran’s Covert Oil Trade Persists Despite U.S. Blockade

Iran continues to export its oil out of the Persian Gulf via the Strait of Hormuz using dark mode on tankers to move past the U.S. blockade outside the world’s most vital oil chokepoint. At least two Iran-flagged supertankers fully laden with an estimated about 4 million barrels of crude have exited the Gulf via the Strait of Hormuz and through the U.S. blockade, Bloomberg reports, citing satellite imagery analyzed by energy flows intelligence firm Vortexa. The two Iranian very large crude carriers have been detected by satellite images as…