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Tehran is still under sanctions, but has nearly doubled its exports since the summer. Just at the time when the repression against dissidents was getting tougher
by Sissi Bellomo
Russian oil (perhaps) comes out, Iranian oil enters. While the world‘s attention is focused on Moscow’s exports – still extraordinarily resilient – another sanctioned country has reared its head, managing to nearly double its export sales since last summer, to 1.4 million barrels per day in December according to Vortexa estimates: a boom that took place in the almost total indifference of the international community, precisely in the period in which the Tehran regime unleashed…