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US seizing tankers has failed to stop Iran’s oil exports, minister says
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TEHRAN, 13 March 2022, (TON): The US seizure of Iranian tankers in recent months has not stopped sanctions-hit Tehran from increasing oil exports, Iran’s oil minister said.
Javad Owji said in an interview carried by Iranian media “the United States has on several occasions in the past months violated Iranian oil tankers to prevent export of shipments.”
Owji said “when the enemy realized it could not stop our exports and contracts, they went after our ships.”
His remarks follow reports of a recent seizure of an Iranian oil tanker in the Bahamas, even as indirect Iran-US talks in Vienna to revive a 2015 nuclear deal could see the lifting of US sanctions in return for Tehran curbing its nuclear work.
A last-minute demand by Russia, a close ally of Iran, has forced world powers meeting in the Austrian capital to pause for an undetermined time, despite having a largely completed text.
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