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  1. #331
    Quote Originally Posted by Swordsmyth View Post
    With most major importers of Iranian crude, including India and even China, already falling into compliance with U.S sanctions, the Iranian government will have to move quickly to not only make up the shortfall in oil revenue needed for state coffers but to also appease already festering public angst over the fall of the country’s currency (the rial), high inflation, unemployment and ongoing economic problems in the Islamic Republic.
    Trump says oil supply elsewhere sufficient to allow cut in Iran purchases
    https://www.reuters.com/article/us-i...-idUSKCN1N5329



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  3. #332
    As the start date of the U.S. sanctions on Iran’s oil draws near, key Asian buyers of Iranian oil dramatically cut their purchases from Iran in September to the lowest level since the previous sanctions on Tehran were lifted in January 2016, Reuters reported on Wednesday, citing ship-tracking and government data.
    Total imports from Iran by the four major Asian importers—China, India, South Korea, and Japan—plunged by 40.9 percent year on year in September 2018, to a total of 1.13 million bpd.
    India increased its purchases of Iranian oil compared to September last year, but China and Japan significantly reduced their imports from Iran, while South Korea stopped Iranian oil imports altogether—for the first time since September 2012.
    China—Iran’s single largest oil customer—saw its imports drop by 41.6 percent in September compared to the same month last year, to 458,184 bpd from 784,060 bpd, according to Refinitiv Eikon oil flow data.
    India, the second biggest Iranian oil buyer in the world, imported 527,600 bpd on average in September, up by 27 percent on the year.
    Japan cut its oil imports from Iran by 31 percent annually to 148,775 bpd in September, Reuters said, citing Japanese trade ministry data.
    According to oil trade flow data, Japan loaded its last Iranian oil cargo in the middle of September.

    More at: https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-N...Month-Low.html
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  4. #333
    Washington has granted India a waiver from the sanctions against Iran that snap back this Monday, the Economic Times reports, noting the waiver was secured after India agreed to reduce its Iranian oil imports by a third during financial 2018/19.
    “India and the US have broadly agreed on a waiver. India will cut import by about 35% from last year (2017-18), which is a significant cut,” the Indian daily cited an unnamed source as saying.
    Last financial year, India imported some 22 million tons of Iranian crude and had plans to increase this to 30 million tons in the next financial year. Instead, it will have to cut them to between 14 and 15 million tons, the source told the Economic Times.
    Indian refiners began cutting their imports of Iranian oil imports a couple of months ago in preparation for the waiver.

    More at: https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-N...r-From-US.html
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  5. #334
    After months of negotiations and just days before U.S. sanctions imposed on importers of Iranian oil kick in, the United States has apparently agreed to give waivers to two of Iran's biggest oil customers, sparing them from the penalties. Bloomberg News reported Nov. 1 that India and South Korea, the largest importers of Iran's oil behind China, have arranged deals for the exemptions, while noting that the details of those broad agreements may not be completed until after sanctions start on Nov. 5.
    Japan and Turkey have also been trying to secure waivers, but no announcement on the status of those negotiations has been made. In a sign that further waivers could be coming, U.S. national security adviser John Bolton acknowledged that while the United States would like to choke off all Iranian oil exports, some countries were finding it difficult to find alternative suppliers, and Washington would like to spare U.S. allies the economic damage of sanctions.





    According to details leaked from waivers talks, India has agreed to reduce Iranian oil imports by about 40 percent below planned levels to about 1.25 million metric tons per month, or about 290,000 barrels per day. In its plan for the 2018-19 fiscal year, set before the United States announced its JCPOA withdrawal, India was to import 25 million metric tons of Iranian oil, or about 490,000 bpd. During the summer, however, Iranian oil sales to India averaged much higher, topping out at a record 768,000 bpd during July.
    No details have been released on the waiver agreement reportedly made by South Korea, Iran's third-largest oil customer before Trump announced its JCPOA pullout in May. Through April, South Korea had imported an average of 300,000 bpd of Iranian oil, but in the months since Trump's decision, it tapered those purchases in anticipation of the sanctions. To gain the waiver, it likely agreed to a larger cut of imports from previous levels.




    While the United States may be on the verge of issuing a few waivers, it will keep up its pressure on the oil customers that receive them. The waivers, which typically must be renewed every six months, will only be granted to countries that continue to meet U.S. expectations by buying less and less Iranian oil.
    Moreover, while the waivers will allow continued imports of Iranian oil, they will not make it easier for customers to pay for it. Another set of U.S. sanctions targets the international payment system that allows customers to process transactions with Iran and will make it more difficult to arrange transportation and insurance for oil shipments. New Delhi has assured the United States that the barter arrangement that it has been trying to set up will include safeguards to prevent Indian purchases of Iranian oil from funding terrorism. That system would keep Iranian oil "revenue" in special overseas accounts that will prevent Iran from exchanging it for anything but Indian exports.

    More at: https://worldview.stratfor.com/artic...l-sanctions-us
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  6. #335
    India and south Korea allowed to buy Iranian oil.
    https://www.cnbc.com/2018/11/01/trum...s-reports.html
    Russian Market
    Azerbaijan gets U.S. waiver to continue pumping Iranian oil.
    Russian Market
    U.S. AGREES TO LET CHINA KEEP BUYING IRANIAN OIL AFTER IT REIMPOSES SANCTIONS
    Russian Market
    Japan gets US waiver to continue to buy Iranian oil


    obvious no one was going to stop comply; so gave waivers to maintain image of still running the show...
    EU & Globe won't forget 'who' the 'enemy' is though and will prepare a 'future' defense/de-dollarize-bilateral agmnts.
    US gained nothing and lost loyalties... 'allies' now wary.
    good.


    late break..
    Lee Saks
    IRAQ OFFICIALS SAY THE UNITED STATES IS TO GRANT BAGHDAD WAIVER OVER SOME IRAN SANCTIONS

    BREAKING: US wants to cut Iran from global banking network Swift: Treasury


    Russia vows to help Iran counter US oil sanctions
    https://www.ft.com/content/d6f59f52-...4-38d397e6661c


    Conflict News
    BREAKING: France, Germany, UK, EU condemn new US Iran sanctions - @AFP

    United States will allow eight countries to continue importing Iranian oil but only at much lower levels - Pompeo
    https://sg.news.yahoo.com/us-exempt-...151559699.html

    The US Treasury will also demand the SWIFT global financial network stop servicing Iran's banking industry as part of enforcing sanctions over the country's nuclear program and alleged support for terrorism.

    Another 700 companies, individuals, businesses, aircraft and ships will be added to the US sanctions list, widely expanding the people and entities Washington seeks to block from accessing global business and financial networks.

    The reimposition of sanctions "is aimed at depriving the regime of the revenues it uses to spread death and destruction around the world," Pompeo said.

    "Our ultimate aim is to compel Iran to permanently abandon its well documented outlaw activities and behave as a normal country."
    Last edited by goldenequity; 11-02-2018 at 12:31 PM.

  7. #336
    what Trump tweeted today:



    What posted on Soleimani's Instagram account later today:



    Well done...



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  9. #337
    Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin threatened the global financial messaging service SWIFT on Friday that it could be penalized if it doesn’t cut off financial services to entities and individuals doing business with Iran. The warning came just days ahead of the US re-imposition of all US sanctions on Iran that had been lifted under the 2015 nuclear deal, which will take effect at midnight tonight and cover Iran's shipping, financial and energy sectors.
    Speaking to reporters, Mnuchin was quoted by Reuters as saying that "SWIFT is no different than any other entity," adding "We have advised SWIFT that it must disconnect any Iranian financial institutions that we designate as soon as technologically feasible to avoid sanctions exposure."

    More at: https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-...-iran-isnt-cut
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  10. #338
    Just ahead of U.S. sanctions on Iran set to snap back on Monday targeting primarily the energy, shipbuilding, shipping, and banking sectors, Iran's most prominent conservative cleric has announced that if oil exports are halted, Saudi tankers will be confiscated and Gulf countries attacked.
    Powerful Shia cleric Ayatollah Ahmad Alamolhoda is the Friday Prayer leader in Mashhad, considered Iran's spiritual capital and among the holiest places in Shia Islam, and sits on the government's "Assembly of Experts" but has no formal government role or decision-making ability. However, he's a powerful leader and chief spiritual force behind Iran's conservative faction who has long been at odds with President Hassan Rouhani.
    Iranian opposition sources report that Alamolhoda told his followers during his Friday prayer sermon:
    If we reach a point that our oil is not exported, the Strait of Hormuz will be mined. Saudi oil tankers will be seized and regional countries will be leveled with Iranian missiles.


    The cleric is further reported to have declared that Iran has the power to "instantly" create conditions for $400 a barrel oil prices if it decides to act in the Persian Gulf.
    He said as reported in regional opposition media:
    If Iran decides, a single drop of this region's oil will not be exported and in 90 minutes all Persian Gulf countries will be destroyed. The UAE and Saudi Arabia will be destroyed in 60 minutes. After 90 minutes the U.S. will have nothing in this country. And we haven't even started with Israel. Beware of the day we go after Israel, too. That's why they want us to round up our missiles.
    Though the hardline cleric's rhetoric is often of this fiery tone and threat-laden in nature, it articulates the position of conservative critics who've long pointed out that President Rouhani's risk of entering a deal with the West (the 2015 JCPOA) has utterly failed.
    Meanwhile, with less than 24 hours to go before the next and fiercest round of sanctions come back into force, thousands of demonstrators appeared on the streets of Iran holding anti-American banners and chanting "down with the US". Iranian media reported that similar demonstrations were held in multiple cities across the country.

    More at: https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-...missiles-ahead
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  11. #339
    If Iran decides, a single drop of this region's oil will not be exported and in 90 minutes all Persian Gulf countries will be destroyed.
    This is not an empty threat..
    And Iran has shown great restraint,, (by my observation) in the face of multiple provocations..

    They very literally have the capability.
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  12. #340
    Quote Originally Posted by pcosmar View Post
    This is not an empty threat..
    And Iran has shown great restraint,, (by my observation) in the face of multiple provocations..

    They very literally have the capability.
    The very reason the US has held Iran captive is for their resources. This needs to STOP.
    There is no spoon.

  13. #341
    Risky business.

    Don't need a weather man to know which way the wind blows

  14. #342
    Quote Originally Posted by Swordsmyth View Post
    Washington has granted India a waiver from the sanctions against Iran that snap back this Monday, the Economic Times reports, noting the waiver was secured after India agreed to reduce its Iranian oil imports by a third during financial 2018/19.
    “India and the US have broadly agreed on a waiver. India will cut import by about 35% from last year (2017-18), which is a significant cut,” the Indian daily cited an unnamed source as saying.
    Last financial year, India imported some 22 million tons of Iranian crude and had plans to increase this to 30 million tons in the next financial year. Instead, it will have to cut them to between 14 and 15 million tons, the source told the Economic Times.
    Indian refiners began cutting their imports of Iranian oil imports a couple of months ago in preparation for the waiver.

    More at: https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-N...r-From-US.html
    LOL@waivers. That's called perception management. Those "waiver" countries are going to continue to buy oil from Iran regardless of what the US govt says. So, publish that they were granted waivers so as to make it appear that the US govt is still in control. De-dollarization spin. Pretty much everything coming out of DC is purposely designed to isolate the dollar thus facilitating the global dropping the dollar as sole oil reserve currency. The mockingbird media sells the .gov spin to the sheep. I'm pretty well convinced that oilprice.com is completely controlled to help sell the .gov/media spin.
    Last edited by devil21; 11-05-2018 at 02:13 PM.
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  15. #343
    The United States has decided to issue temporary allotments to China, India, Italy, Greece, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and Turkey to continue importing Iranian oil, due to the specific countries’ circumstances and to ensure a well-supplied oil market, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Monday, the day on which U.S. sanctions on Iranian oil return.
    Late last week, U.S. government officials signaled that the United States had granted waivers to eight countries to continue temporary buying Iranian oil, on the condition that they had significantly reduced purchases from Iran. At that time, the waivers were not official, and the eight countries were unidentified.
    Monday’s announcement specified which countries are getting those waivers, and they include Iran’s top oil customers China and India.
    More than 20 importing nations have cut their imports of crude oil already, taking more than 1 million bpd off the market, Secretary Pompeo said at a press conference.
    “The regime to date, since May, has lost over $2.5 billion in oil revenue,” he added.
    Referring to the eight countries to which the U.S. is granting waivers, Secretary Pompeo said that “each of those countries has already demonstrated significant reductions of the purchase of Iranian crude over the past six months and indeed two of those eight have already completely ended imports of Iranian crude and will not resume as long as the sanctions regime remains in place.”
    “We continue negotiations to get all the nations to zero,” Secretary Pompeo noted.

    More at: https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-N...Irans-Oil.html
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  16. #344
    The US on Monday (Nov 5) is reimposing disciplinary measures targeting Iran's oil, shipping, insurance, and banking sectors in what US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo called "the toughest sanctions ever placed" against Iran. In response, Tehran has reportedly turned off all oil tanker tracking systems as the sanctions take effect today.
    Analysts at TankerTrackers.com, a watchdog that monitors production, refinement, shipping, and trading of crude oil on a global scale, revealed in late October all Iranian tanker vessels turned off their transponders to avoid international tracking for the first time since 2016.
    “It’s the first time I’ve seen a blanket black-out. It’s very unique,” TankerTrackers co-founder Samir Madani told Sputnik News.
    Madani said with the transponders turned off, the vessels can only be monitored using private satellite imagery. He believes that such a shift to lesser transparency is a ploy by Iran’s leadership to keep the international supply chains open amid US sanctions.
    “Iran has around 30 vessels in the Gulf area, so the past 10 days have been very tricky, but it hasn’t slowed us down. We are keeping watch visually,” said co-founder Lisa Ward.
    The analysts suggested that going dark could pose significant problems in pinpointing the date when a tanker loaded its crude cargo.
    Between 2010 and 2015, when Iran was slapped with international sanctions, its oil industry discovered that it could keep crude on tankers off the Gulf coast to avoid supply chain disruptions.

    According to TankerTrackers.com's research, there are currently six tankers with a total capacity of 11 million barrels moored offshore as floating storage, which allows Iran to continue deliveries.

    Iran is the third-largest oil producer in OPEC, and the country’s First Vice-President Eshaq Jahangiri revealed in late October that Tehran had been exporting 2.5 million barrels per day over the past few months, said Sputnik.




    More at: https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-...anctions-start
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  18. #345
    Iran Sanctions Back On! Is War On The Way? - today in a special Liberty Report filmed before a live audience


  19. #346
    Al-Masdar News‏
    Egyptian President vows to defend allies in Persian Gulf against Iran
    https://aml.ink/j1o4d

  20. #347
    Quote Originally Posted by goldenequity View Post
    Al-Masdar News‏
    Egyptian President vows to defend allies in Persian Gulf against Iran
    https://aml.ink/j1o4d
    Egypt Goes on an Arms Spending Spree

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    Linus, from the Peanuts comic

    You cannot have liberty without morality and morality without faith

    Alexis de Torqueville

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  21. #348

  22. #349
    South Korea will resume Iranian crude oil imports at a rate of about 4 million barrels a month, S&P Global Platts reports, citing three unnamed South Korean sources. At the same time, the sources added, the country will continue to look for alternative sources of the commodity.

    Earlier today, Japan’s minister of trade said Japanese refiners were also about to restart imports of Iranian crude now that the waivers were granted although he declined to mention any volumes.

    More at: https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-N...Per-Month.html
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    You cannot have liberty without morality and morality without faith

    Alexis de Torqueville

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  23. #350
    The United States government is preparing more sanctions against Iran, national security adviser John Bolton told Fox Business News, commenting on what the current sanctions have already helped Washington accomplish, and what the ultimate goal is.

    “We’re going to have sanctions that even go beyond this. We’re not simply going to be content with the level of sanctions that existed under Obama in 2015 — more are coming,” Bolton told Fox Business News’ Maria Bartiromo, without, however, going into any detail as to the nature of the additional sanctions.“This is going to cut into Iran’s ability to continue their nuclear program, to finance terrorism and to engage in military activity around the Middle East and I think we’re already seeing that,” the national security adviser said.

    More at: https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-G...inst-Iran.html
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    Linus, from the Peanuts comic

    You cannot have liberty without morality and morality without faith

    Alexis de Torqueville

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  24. #351
    The SWIFT banking network, the backbone for international monetary transfers, said Monday it has suspended several Iranian banks from its service, after the United States reimposed nuclear sanctions on Tehran."In keeping with our mission of supporting the resilience and integrity of the global financial system as a global and neutral service provider, SWIFT is suspending certain Iranian banks' access to the messaging system," it said.
    "This step, while regrettable, has been taken in the interest of the stability and integrity of the wider global financial system."

    More at: https://www.yahoo.com/news/us-sancti...152155927.html
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  25. #352
    Quote Originally Posted by Swordsmyth View Post
    The SWIFT banking network, the backbone for international monetary transfers, said Monday it has suspended several Iranian banks from its service, after the United States reimposed nuclear sanctions on Tehran."In keeping with our mission of supporting the resilience and integrity of the global financial system as a global and neutral service provider, SWIFT is suspending certain Iranian banks' access to the messaging system," it said.
    "This step, while regrettable, has been taken in the interest of the stability and integrity of the wider global financial system."

    More at: https://www.yahoo.com/news/us-sancti...152155927.html
    bootlickers



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  27. #353
    A spokesperson for the U.S. State Department has announced that the United States will waive sanctions on certain parts of the Chabahar port in Iran, along with the accompanying Chabahar-Afghanistan railway project and Iranian petroleum exports to Afghanistan, Agence France-Press reported Nov. 7.

    More at: https://worldview.stratfor.com/situa...-chabahar-port
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  28. #354
    Matt Lee
    @APDiploWriter
    "US warns nations not to allow Iran oil tankers into waters, ports"
    https://apnews.com/311ca16d33da47f682fc8b379a7cbac2

    US now 'commands and orders' Sovereign nations who they can transact with and now dictates access and THREATENS their coastal ports????
    wtf????

  29. #355

  30. #356
    zerohedge @zerohedge
    *TRUMP WON'T ATTEND PARIS `PEACE FORUM' NOV. 11, AFP SAYS


    America threatens Iranian oil tankers.

    State Dept's Brian Hook:
    US sanctions will force Iran to use domestic insurers for its tankers, but they can't cover losses.
    "We sincerely hope there'll be no accidents, but accidents are a very real possibility"


    thug empire. unbelievable.

  31. #357

    Bubble ecomics

    Nuclear energy? Installing a new Iranian puppet regime? I don't think so!


    If I remember correctly all the links in this post have earlier been posted in this thread by @Swordsmyth...



    It must be easy when you control or have advance knowledge of “world events” to make a profit.

    We can expect that the Iran sanction will:
    1) Increase the oil price.
    2) Because oil is paid in dollars this will automatically increase the dollar “price” (conversion rate).
    3) Increased inflation.


    The sanctions on Iran would especially increase the US dollar compared to the Iran rial. Such an effect could be made even stronger with stories in the media like the following...

    Since the country's 1979 “Islamic Revolution” (staged by CIA and British intelligence), one dollar was worth 70 rials.
    When Iranian President Hassan Rouhani took power in 2013, 1 dollar bought 36,000 rials. At the end of August, 1 US dollar was worth 107,000 rials, compared to 43,000 rials in January.

    Iranian “investors” have reportedly been buying dollars: https://oilprice.com/Geopolitics/Middle-East/Iranians-Are-Turning-To-US-Dollars-To-Offset-Sanctions.html


    By September, the rial plunged further to over 150,000 rials to $1 in the currency exchange shops of Tehran.

    Turkey has experienced a surge in Iranian real estate purchases, helped by readily available loans from Turkish banks: https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-09-12/iranian-money-heads-turkeys-troubled-economy-immigrants-buying-turkish-property


    The rise in Turkish real estate will probably be stronger because Turkey was granted a waiver…


    Events like these, with the aid of our media, create bubbles. The intelligent fools that invest, after reading stories like these, probably don’t know that these bubbles aren’t created to make everybody win.
    It’s just a matter of time before they take our hard earned money, by blowing the bubble (for example by changing interest rates or stopping the sanctions).
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  32. #358
    Iran International: UK-based Iranian TV station funded by Prince Mohammed bin Salman
    https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...o-saudi-arabia


  33. #359
    Trita Parsi
    WOW!
    Here Secretary Pompeo reveals the Trump admin' real goal:
    To starve the Iranian people and then blame the Iranian government for their deaths.
    The pleasure this administration takes in this is deliberate. It's to signal Netanyahu and Saudi that "Trump is on it..."



    Russian Market
    Market chatter that Russia is next after Iran to get kicked off from SWIFT - Bloomberg reports on German Lobby.

    Russian Market
    Breaking Russia’s Foreign Minister Lavrov calls US’ pressure on SWIFT "unacceptable"

  34. #360
    Iran sold 700,000 barrels of crude oil to private companies for export on Sunday in a second round of sales aimed at countering U.S. sanctions on the country's exports, oil ministry news website SHANA reported.Three unnamed companies paid $64.97 per barrel for two crude shipments of 245,000 barrels each and one shipment of 210,000 barrels, which were traded on Iran's energy bourse, SHANA reported.
    Iran began selling crude oil to private companies for export in late October, just ahead of U.S. sanctions on sectors including oil which came into effect on Nov. 5.
    Crude oil trade is state-controlled in Iran. Earlier, private refining companies could only buy crude oil for exports of oil products.

    More at: https://www.yahoo.com/news/iran-sell...--finance.html
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