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 group counted only vessels that crossed the U.S. blockade line running from the eastern tip of O

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 group counted 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 network has been reduced to a handful of high-risk, scattered sailings, with most of its oil idle at sea.