U.S.-based non-profit advisory group UANI says Iran struggled to breach a U.S.
naval blockade in May, leaving roughly 80 mln barrels of oil and petrochemical
products trapped in waters beyond the blockade line. UANI recorded four naphtha
shipments totaling about 2 mln barrels plus a small volume of LPG; by contrast,
Iran's oil and fuel exports in February, before the war, exceeded 59 mln
barrels. The counted group only vessels that crossed the U.S. blockade line
running from the eastern tip of Oman to the Iran–Pakistan border, not ships
transiting the Strait of Hormuz. UANI said: Iran's once-robust sanctions-evasion
The network has been reduced to a handful of high-risk, scattered sailings, with
most of its oil idle at sea.
