Iran Abandons Dark-Fleet Intermediaries to Sell Its Oil -- WSJ

Dow Jones04-15 22:56

By Costas Paris

Iran has abandoned intermediaries it used for decades to sell its oil after a number of Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps officials who run "shadow fleet" operations were killed, according to Iranian state media. IRNA and the Tehran Times reported that the National Iranian oil company would resume sole authority of marketing Iranian crude.

The previous system relied on a network of so-called trustees, including oil traders in Russia and Dubai with direct links to senior IRGC officials whose job was to circumvent American and EU sanctions in order to maintain revenue flows to the Iranian regime.

Malaysian refinery officials told The Wall Street Journal they had lost contact with two IRGC officials who previously arranged ship-to-ship transfers of Iranian crude near the Strait of Malacca. The U.S. blockade of Iranian ports has all but stopped Iran-controlled or dark-fleet tankers moving Iranian oil to importers mainly China and India.

For more on "dark fleet" tankers:

This item is part of a Wall Street Journal live coverage event. The full stream can be found by searching P/WSJL (WSJ Live Coverage).

(END) Dow Jones Newswires

April 15, 2026 10:56 ET (14:56 GMT)

Copyright (c) 2026 Dow Jones & Company, Inc.

At the request of the copyright holder, you need to log in to view this content

Disclaimer: Investing carries risk. This is not financial advice. The above content should not be regarded as an offer, recommendation, or solicitation on acquiring or disposing of any financial products, any associated discussions, comments, or posts by author or other users should not be considered as such either. It is solely for general information purpose only, which does not consider your own investment objectives, financial situations or needs. TTM assumes no responsibility or warranty for the accuracy and completeness of the information, investors should do their own research and may seek professional advice before investing.

Comments

We need your insight to fill this gap

Leave a comment

{"i18n":{"language":"en_US"},"isChannel":false,"data":{"share":"https://ttm.financial/m/news/2627233724?lang=en_US&edition=fundamental","thumbnail":"","is_english":true,"pubTime":"2026-04-15 22:56","share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","id":"2627233724","market":"nz","top_or_hot":-1,"title":"Iran Abandons Dark-Fleet Intermediaries to Sell Its Oil -- WSJ","media":"Dow Jones","content":"<font class=\"NormalMinus1\" face=\"Arial\">\n<p>\n       By Costas Paris \n</p>\n<p>\n     Iran has abandoned intermediaries it used for decades to sell its oil after a number of Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps officials who run \"shadow fleet\" operations were killed, according to Iranian state media. IRNA and the Tehran Times reported that the National Iranian oil company would resume sole authority of marketing Iranian crude. \n</p>\n<p>\n     The previous system relied on a network of so-called trustees, including oil traders in Russia and Dubai with direct links to senior IRGC officials whose job was to circumvent American and EU sanctions in order to maintain revenue flows to the Iranian regime. \n</p>\n<p>\n     Malaysian refinery officials told The Wall Street Journal they had lost contact with two IRGC officials who previously arranged ship-to-ship transfers of Iranian crude near the Strait of Malacca. The U.S. blockade of Iranian ports has all but stopped Iran-controlled or dark-fleet tankers moving Iranian oil to importers mainly China and India. \n</p>\n<p>\n     For more on \"dark fleet\" tankers: \n</p>\n<p>\n       This item is part of a Wall Street Journal live coverage event. The full stream can be found by searching P/WSJL (WSJ Live Coverage). \n</p>\n<p>\n  (END) Dow Jones Newswires\n</p>\n<p>\n  April 15, 2026 10:56 ET (14:56 GMT)\n</p>\n<p>\n  Copyright (c) 2026 Dow Jones &amp; Company, Inc.\n</p>\n</font>","source":null,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>Iran Abandons Dark-Fleet Intermediaries to Sell Its Oil -- WSJ</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; line-height:1.5; color:#999; background:transparent; }\n.wrapper{ overflow:hidden;word-break:break-all;padding:10px; }\nh1,h2{ font-weight:normal; line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:.6em; }\nh3,h4,h5,h6{ line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:1em; }\nh1{ font-size:24px; }\nh2{ font-size:20px; }\nh3{ font-size:18px; }\nh4{ font-size:16px; }\nh5{ font-size:14px; }\nh6{ font-size:12px; }\np,ul,ol,blockquote,dl,table{ margin:1.2em 0; }\nul,ol{ margin-left:2em; }\nul{ list-style:disc; }\nol{ list-style:decimal; }\nli,li p{ margin:10px 0;}\nimg{ max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto 1em; }\nblockquote{ color:#B5B2B1; border-left:3px solid #aaa; padding:1em; }\nstrong,b{font-weight:bold;}\nem,i{font-style:italic;}\ntable{ width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:1px;margin:1em 0;font-size:.9em; }\nth,td{ padding:5px;text-align:left;border:1px solid #aaa; }\nth{ font-weight:bold;background:#5d5d5d; }\n.symbol-link{font-weight:bold;}\n/* header{ border-bottom:1px solid #494756; } */\n.title{ margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.3;color:#ddd; }\n.meta {color:#5e5c6d;font-size:13px;margin:0 0 .5em; }\na{text-decoration:none; color:#2a4b87;}\n.meta .head { display: inline-block; overflow: hidden}\n.head .h-thumb { width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-radius: 50%; float: left;}\n.head .h-content { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 9px; float: left;}\n.head .h-name {font-size: 13px; color: #eee; margin: 0;}\n.head .h-time {font-size: 11px; color: #7E829C; margin: 0;line-height: 11px;}\n.small {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.9); -webkit-transform: scale(0.9); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.smaller {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.8); -webkit-transform: scale(0.8); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.bt-text {font-size: 12px;margin: 1.5em 0 0 0}\n.bt-text p {margin: 0}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\nIran Abandons Dark-Fleet Intermediaries to Sell Its Oil -- WSJ\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n<div class=\"head\" \">\n\n\n<div class=\"h-thumb\" style=\"background-image:url(https://static.tigerbbs.com/150f88aa4d182df19190059f4a365e99);background-size:cover;\"></div>\n\n<div class=\"h-content\">\n<p class=\"h-name\">Dow Jones </p>\n<p class=\"h-time\">2026-04-15 22:56</p>\n</div>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<font class=\"NormalMinus1\" face=\"Arial\">\n<p>\n       By Costas Paris \n</p>\n<p>\n     Iran has abandoned intermediaries it used for decades to sell its oil after a number of Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps officials who run \"shadow fleet\" operations were killed, according to Iranian state media. IRNA and the Tehran Times reported that the National Iranian oil company would resume sole authority of marketing Iranian crude. \n</p>\n<p>\n     The previous system relied on a network of so-called trustees, including oil traders in Russia and Dubai with direct links to senior IRGC officials whose job was to circumvent American and EU sanctions in order to maintain revenue flows to the Iranian regime. \n</p>\n<p>\n     Malaysian refinery officials told The Wall Street Journal they had lost contact with two IRGC officials who previously arranged ship-to-ship transfers of Iranian crude near the Strait of Malacca. The U.S. blockade of Iranian ports has all but stopped Iran-controlled or dark-fleet tankers moving Iranian oil to importers mainly China and India. \n</p>\n<p>\n     For more on \"dark fleet\" tankers: \n</p>\n<p>\n       This item is part of a Wall Street Journal live coverage event. The full stream can be found by searching P/WSJL (WSJ Live Coverage). \n</p>\n<p>\n  (END) Dow Jones Newswires\n</p>\n<p>\n  April 15, 2026 10:56 ET (14:56 GMT)\n</p>\n<p>\n  Copyright (c) 2026 Dow Jones &amp; Company, Inc.\n</p>\n</font>\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","isBrief":false,"type":0,"news_type":1,"symbol":"DIG","symbol_name":"二倍做多美国油气指数","start_time":0,"source_url":"https://dowjonesnews.com/newdjn/logon.aspx?AL=N","article_id":"2627233724","we_media_id":"106","thumbnails":[],"rights":null,"url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=2627233724","pubTimestamp":1776264960,"columns":[],"sourceInfo":null,"weMediaInfo":{"media_name":"Dow Jones","introduction":"Dow Jones publishes the world’s most trusted business news and financial information in a variety of media.","home_visible":0,"id":"106","head_image":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/150f88aa4d182df19190059f4a365e99"},"summary":"Iran has abandoned intermediaries it used for decades to sell its oil after a number of Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps officials who run \"shadow fleet\" operations were killed, according to Iranian state media. IRNA and the Tehran Times reported that the National Iranian oil company would resume sole authority of marketing Iranian crude.The previous system relied on a network of so-called trustees, including oil traders in Russia and Dubai with direct links to senior IRGC officials whose job was to circumvent American and EU sanctions in order to maintain revenue flows to the Iranian regime.Malaysian refinery officials told The Wall Street Journal they had lost contact with two IRGC officials who previously arranged ship-to-ship transfers of Iranian crude near the Strait of Malacca. The U.S. blockade of Iranian ports has all but stopped Iran-controlled or dark-fleet tankers moving Iranian oil to importers mainly China and India.This item is part of a Wall Street Journal live coverage","collect":0,"end_time":0,"defaultTopTitle":"","property":[],"viewcount":null,"language":"en","relate_stocks":{"DIG":"二倍做多美国油气指数","UCO":"二倍做多彭博原油ETF","DBE":"能源商品ETF-PowerShares","XLE":"SPDR能源指数ETF","GUSH":"Direxion Daily S&P Oil &Gas Exp. & Prod. Bull 2X Shares","BK4588":"碎股","DRIP":"Direxion Daily S&P Oil & Gas Exp. & Prod. Bear 2X Shares","IEO":"iShares Dow Jones U.S. Oil & Gas","SCO":"二倍做空彭博原油指数ETF","XOP":"油气开采指数ETF-SPDR S&P","IXC":"全球能源业ETF-iShares","OIH":"石油服务ETF","PXJ":"Invesco Oil & Gas Services ETF","ERX":"二倍做多能源ETF-Direxion","USO":"美国原油ETF","DRLL":"Strive U.S. Energy ETF","USOI":"ETRACS Crude Oil Shares Covered Call ETN","USE":"USCF Energy Commodity Strategy Absolute Return Fund","BK4570":"地缘局势概念股","USL":"United States 12 Month Oil Fund LP","BK4585":"ETF&股票定投概念","BWET":"BREAKWAVE TANKER SHIPPING ETF","DUG":"二倍做空石油与天然气ETF(ProShares)","OILK":"ProShares K-1 Free Crude Oil ETF","VDE":"Vanguard Energy ETF","BNO":"美国布伦特原油基金有限合伙企业","OILT":"Texas Oil Index ETF","UGA":"United States Gasoline Fund LP","OILU":"MicroSectors Oil & Gas Exp. & Prod. 3x Leveraged ETN","DBO":"原油ETF-PowerShares","DBC":"商品指数ETF-PowerShares DB"},"translate_title":"伊朗放弃黑暗舰队中间商出售石油——华尔街日报","themeId":null,"isJumpTheme":false,"ttsUrl":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/653bb556a4900340a881cdac78ea6802","symbols_score_info":{"USE":0.61,"OIH":0.61,"DIG":0.61,"OILU":0.61,"BNO":0.61,"OILT":0.61,"SCO":0.6,"DRLL":0.61,"USL":0.61,"DRIP":0.61,"BWET":0.61,"UGA":0.61,"VDE":0.61,"DBO":0.61,"DBC":0.61,"GUSH":0.61,"XOP":0.61,"USO":0.61,"PXJ":0.61,"ERX":0.61,"USOI":0.61,"DUG":0.61,"UCO":0.6,"DBE":0.61,"IXC":0.61,"XLE":0.61,"IEO":0.61,"OILK":0.61},"content_text":"By Costas Paris \n\n\n     Iran has abandoned intermediaries it used for decades to sell its oil after a number of Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps officials who run \"shadow fleet\" operations were killed, according to Iranian state media. IRNA and the Tehran Times reported that the National Iranian oil company would resume sole authority of marketing Iranian crude. \n\n\n     The previous system relied on a network of so-called trustees, including oil traders in Russia and Dubai with direct links to senior IRGC officials whose job was to circumvent American and EU sanctions in order to maintain revenue flows to the Iranian regime. \n\n\n     Malaysian refinery officials told The Wall Street Journal they had lost contact with two IRGC officials who previously arranged ship-to-ship transfers of Iranian crude near the Strait of Malacca. The U.S. blockade of Iranian ports has all but stopped Iran-controlled or dark-fleet tankers moving Iranian oil to importers mainly China and India. \n\n\n     For more on \"dark fleet\" tankers: \n\n\n       This item is part of a Wall Street Journal live coverage event. The full stream can be found by searching P/WSJL (WSJ Live Coverage). \n\n\n  (END) Dow Jones Newswires\n\n\n  April 15, 2026 10:56 ET (14:56 GMT)\n\n\n  Copyright (c) 2026 Dow Jones & Company, Inc.","kind":"highlight","is_publish_news":true,"is_publish_highlight":false,"is_publish_live":false,"is_publish_wemedia":null,"editions":null,"column":"","sentiment":"0","news_tag":"","news_rank":0,"isVideo":false,"video":null,"symbols":[],"gpt_button":0,"need_auth":true,"need_login_tip":false,"code":"91000000","status":"200"},"commentList":[],"isCommentEnd":true,"newsSizeData":{"likeSize":0,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"favoriteSize":0,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false},"APP":{"userAgent":"Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; ClaudeBot/1.0; +claudebot@anthropic.com)","isDev":false,"isTTM":true,"tenantId":"TBGLOBAL","deviceId":"web-server-community-laohu8-v3","version":"4.42.0","shortVersion":"4.42.0","platform":"web","vendor":"web","appName":"ttm","isIOS":false,"isAndroid":false,"isTiger":false,"isTHS":false,"isWeiXin":false,"isWeiXinMini":false,"isWeiBo":false,"isQQ":false,"isBaiduSwan":false,"isBaiduBox":false,"isDingTalk":false,"isToutiao":false,"isOnePlus":false,"isHuaWei":false,"isXiaomi":false,"isXiaomiWebView":false,"isOppo":false,"isVivo":false,"isSamsung":false,"isMobile":false},"href":"/m/news/2627233724","isCrawlerRequest":true}