The lawless floating gas station where Iranian oil changes hands
9 million barrels of Iranian oil US authorities say it was carrying — has pushed the war with Iran into the waters of the Indo-Pacific, thousands of miles from the Persian Gulf.
In the year leading up to its dramatic seizure by US forces in the Indian Ocean, the oil tanker known as the MT Tifani made several trips between Iran and a stretch of water off the coast of Malaysia, around 60 miles from the glitzy skyscrapers of Singapore.
Broadly speaking, Iran’s shadow oil trade follows a similar pattern, involving two sets of ships that help deliver Iranian crude to China.
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