Iran Moves to Control Oil Terminals in China, Leak Shows

S. sanctions on Iranian oil exports, Iran International reported on Monday, citing top-level confidential correspondence of the former Iranian leaders. Ali Shamkhani, who was a political adviser to the former supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, discussed in letters to Hamid Bovard, the former head of the National Iranian Oil Company and currently the acting oil minister as of early October, that Iranian authorities had instructed intermediaries to continue using shadow fleet vessels to keep trade with China alive, according to the confidential letters that Iran International has obtained.

-Israeli strikes on Iran in February. Bovard, now acting oil minister, wrote in the correspondence that the Iranian Foreign Ministry had negotiated buying port facilities and oil terminals in China to establish a hub for sanctioned Iranian crude, per the documents obtained by…