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Iran Examines Ways to Circumvent Oil Sanctions

An Iranian employee looks at her phone during the the 24th International Oil, Gas, Petrochemical International Exhibition in Tehran, Iran, 01 May 2019. EPA/ABEDIN TAHERKENAREH
An Iranian employee looks at her phone during the the 24th International Oil, Gas, Petrochemical International Exhibition in Tehran, Iran, 01 May 2019. EPA/ABEDIN TAHERKENAREH
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Iran Examines Ways to Circumvent Oil Sanctions

An Iranian employee looks at her phone during the the 24th International Oil, Gas, Petrochemical International Exhibition in Tehran, Iran, 01 May 2019. EPA/ABEDIN TAHERKENAREH
An Iranian employee looks at her phone during the the 24th International Oil, Gas, Petrochemical International Exhibition in Tehran, Iran, 01 May 2019. EPA/ABEDIN TAHERKENAREH

Iranian Oil Minister Bijan Zanganeh has said Tehran was mulling new ways to sell its oil to circumvent US sanctions as he criticized Washington’s policy to bring the country's oil exports to zero.

The United States has demanded that buyers of Iranian oil stop purchases by May 1 or face sanctions, ending six months of waivers that had allowed Iran’s eight biggest customers, most of them in Asia, to import limited volumes.

Iran is examining new ways to sell its oil, Zanganeh said, according to IRNA.

On Tuesday, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said: “In the coming months, the Americans themselves will see that we will continue our oil exports.”

“Those who use oil as a weapon ... are creating the death and collapse of OPEC,” Zanganeh said Wednesday in a speech at an oil and gas conference in Tehran.

Iran would not leave OPEC, Masoud Karbasian, the chief executive of the National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC) said, according to SHANA, the news outlet of the Iranian oil ministry.

In a related development, Qatar has spoken out against Washington's decision to block all exports of Iranian oil.

"The sanctions should not be extended because they have an adverse impact on countries benefiting from Iranian oil," Qatar's foreign minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani said Wednesday.

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Ukraine Strikes Moscow in Biggest Drone Attack to Date

A view of the site of the damaged multi-storey residential building following an alleged Ukrainian drone attack in Ramenskoye, outside Moscow, Moscow region, Russia, on Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2024. (AP Photo)
A view of the site of the damaged multi-storey residential building following an alleged Ukrainian drone attack in Ramenskoye, outside Moscow, Moscow region, Russia, on Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2024. (AP Photo)
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Ukraine Strikes Moscow in Biggest Drone Attack to Date

A view of the site of the damaged multi-storey residential building following an alleged Ukrainian drone attack in Ramenskoye, outside Moscow, Moscow region, Russia, on Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2024. (AP Photo)
A view of the site of the damaged multi-storey residential building following an alleged Ukrainian drone attack in Ramenskoye, outside Moscow, Moscow region, Russia, on Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2024. (AP Photo)

Ukraine struck the Moscow region on Tuesday in its biggest drone attack so far on the Russian capital, killing at least one woman, wrecking dozens of homes and forcing around 50 flights to be diverted from airports around Moscow.

Russia, the world's biggest nuclear power, said it destroyed at least 20 Ukrainian attack drones as they swarmed over the Moscow region, which has a population of more than 21 million, and 124 more over eight other regions.

At least one person was killed near Moscow, Russian authorities said. Three of Moscow's four airports were closed for more than six hours and almost 50 flights were diverted.

Kyiv said Russia, which sent tens of thousands of troops into Ukraine in February 2022, had attacked it overnight with 46 drones, of which 38 were destroyed.
The drone attacks on Russia damaged high-rise apartment buildings in the Ramenskoye district of the Moscow region, setting flats on fire, residents told Reuters.

A 46-year-old woman was killed and three people were wounded in Ramenskoye, Moscow regional governor Andrei Vorobyov said.

The Ramenskoye district, some 50 km (31 miles) southeast of the Kremlin, has a population of around quarter a million of people, according to official data.
More than 70 drones were also downed over Russia's Bryansk region and tens more over other regions, Russia's defense ministry said. There was no damage or casualties reported there.

As Russia advances in eastern Ukraine, Kyiv has taken the war to Russia with a cross-border attack in Russia's western Kursk region that began on Aug. 6 and by carrying out increasingly large drone attacks deep into Russian territory.

DRONE WAR

The war has largely been a grinding artillery and drone war along the 1,000 km (620 mile) heavily fortified front line in southern and eastern Ukraine involving hundreds of thousands of soldiers.

Moscow and Kyiv have both sought to buy and develop new drones, deploy them in innovative ways, and seek new ways to destroy them - from shotguns to advanced electronic jamming systems.

Both sides have turned cheap commercial drones into deadly weapons while ramping up their own production and assembly to attack targets including tanks, energy infrastructure such as refineries and airfields.