Then, satellites tracked an Iranian oil tanker - the fourth in recent weeks - sailing toward the Persian Gulf after delivering Iranian petroleum products to Venezuela. Yet Iran's oil trade, like its nuclear fuel output, is on the rise again. The Trump administration is entering its final months with a flurry of new sanctions intended to squeeze Iran economically. Far from halting Iran's nuclear advances, Litwak said, the administration's policies have "diplomatically isolated the United States, not Iran." United Against Nuclear Iran, a Washington advocacy group that monitors Iran's illicit oil trade, obtained aerial photographs depicting four vessels allegedly engaged in illegal ship-to-ship transfers of Iranian oil in October.
