{"id":178127,"date":"2026-06-26T06:47:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T06:47:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/178127\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T06:47:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T06:47:13","slug":"trumps-iran-oil-sanction-waiver-set-to-squeeze-chinas-teapot-refiners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/178127\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump&#8217;s Iran oil sanction waiver set to squeeze China&#8217;s teapot refiners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/spotlight\/iran-tensions\/iran-war\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Iran war<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">While Hormuz uncertainty persists, discount-reliant players may have to look elsewhere<\/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\/0\/5.jpeg\" alt=\"20260626 china tanker\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">A tanker offloads imported crude oil at Qingdao Port in China&#8217;s Shandong province in\u00a0March\u00a02025. (Costfoto\/NurPhoto via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p>WATARU SUZUKI and SHOTARO TANI<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">SHANGHAI\/TOKYO &#8212; The temporary waiver of U.S. sanctions on Iranian oil threatens to squeeze China&#8217;s small, independent refiners, known as teapots, as discounts on the crude narrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Iran war While Hormuz uncertainty persists, discount-reliant players may have to look elsewhere A tanker offloads imported crude&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":178128,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3],"tags":[16919,34,213,51963,14067,8035,11231,54254,7587,39165],"class_list":["post-178127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-iran","tag-chinas","tag-iran","tag-oil","tag-refiners","tag-sanction","tag-set","tag-squeeze","tag-teapot","tag-trumps","tag-waiver"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116815071966791209","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178127","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=178127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178127\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}