From delusional companies, barter transactions and oil transfers to high-seas carriers. These tricks are some of the ways Tehran can resort to the second set of US sanctions, which came into force on Monday night, mainly targeting the energy sector.
Iran has experience in circumventing international sanctions, according to the Atlantic site, which has already circumvented sanctions through a series of tricks:
Stop oil tank tracking system
The oil transport vessels have a positioning system designed to ensure their safety and location, but this system can be stopped if the oil carrier wants to hide the destination.
"This tactic is successful because it also hides the identity of the buyer of oil," said researcher Paulina Azvich at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies in California.
Hide Property
Iran used "fake" companies and registered its oil tankers in other countries to avoid international scrutiny.
According to Azvich, Iran has applied this strategy in the past, transferring the ownership of oil tankers of its own to companies owned by other countries, while maintaining operations.
Barter system
Iran may sell its oil through barter contracts, or use a non-dollar operation.
According to The Atlantic, Iran has already traded goods such as cars and telephones with China, and has sold crude oil to India in rupee.
Money laundering
In some cases Iran has used countries where the central authority is weak to launder money and return it to the country, as happened with Babak Zanjani, who earned billions for the Iranian regime. He was sentenced to death in 2013 for embezzling $ 2.8 billion in informal oil deals to circumvent international sanctions. Imposed on Tehran.
Transfer of oil from ship to ship
This method distributes large oil shipments to smaller ones. According to the US site, Iran used this method to hide its oil sales, where an Iranian tanker anchored near a port or at sea, and the transfer of oil to a second tanker, which also travels to another port, which sells oil.
According to the US Treasury Department, this technique is intended to hide the fact that the origin of Iran's oil, and its offer to sell on the global market as not Iranian.
