Iran’s Revolutionary Guards have tightened their grip on the nation’s oil business and management as much as half the exports that generate most of Tehran’s income and fund its proxies throughout the Middle East, in response to Western officers, safety sources and Iranian insiders.
All features of the oil enterprise have come underneath the rising affect of the Guards, from the shadow fleet of tankers that secretively ship sanctioned crude, to logistics and the entrance firms promoting the oil, largely to China, in response to greater than a dozen folks interviewed.
The extent of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ (IRGC) management over oil exports has not beforehand been reported.