{"id":175900,"date":"2026-06-24T17:52:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T17:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/175900\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T17:52:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T17:52:14","slug":"iran-scrambles-to-move-estimated-8-5bn-in-oil-as-us-eases-sanctions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/175900\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran scrambles to move estimated $8.5bn in oil as US eases sanctions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/business\/energy\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Energy<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">Nikkei analysis shows sudden uptick in shipping activity around Kharg Island<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/1\/4.png\" alt=\"20260624N Iran tanker Persian Gulf\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">The tanker Impalas\u00a0departed from the Iranian oil export hub of Kharg Island and is heading toward the Strait of Hormuz. (Screenshot from MarineTraffic)<\/p>\n<p>KENJI ASADA, YUTA KOGA and RINTARO TOBITA<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">NEW YORK\/CAIRO\/WASHINGTON &#8212; Iran has begun loading crude oil onto tankers to ship out of the Persian Gulf after the U.S. temporarily relaxed sanctions, opening the door for Tehran to potentially earn an estimated $8.5 billion in revenue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Energy Nikkei analysis shows sudden uptick in shipping activity around Kharg Island The tanker Impalas\u00a0departed from the Iranian&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":175901,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3],"tags":[53805,53806,53804,34,45105,213,509,53803,153],"class_list":["post-175900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-iran","tag-85bn","tag-eases","tag-estimated","tag-iran","tag-move","tag-oil","tag-sanctions","tag-scrambles","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116806362609931008","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175900\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}