UAE suspends all Iranian airline flights amid US sanctions: Report
“All flights by Iranian airlines to the United Arab Emirates have been cancelled since midnight,” the ISNA news agency reported.
Iranian officials linked to the country's security apparatus are profiting from international sanctions imposed on Iran, alleges a local newspaper. Yashar Soltani, an investigative journalist who has faced jail time for his reporting on financial corruption, claims that the Ministry of Petroleum has relinquished control over the marketing and exportation of Iran's national oil to a select group of four brokers.
These brokers are circumventing the sanctions to maximize their financial gains. Soltani states that the brokers have a vested interest in preventing political agreements between Tehran and Washington from being lifted, as this would effectively dismantle the structure of their operations. According to Soltani, Mohammad Javad Bavand, a former economic deputy at the intelligence agency of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, is managing the sale of Iranian oil.
Over the last three months, Bavand has granted four brokers the rights to sell a total of 80 million barrels of oil.
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