The maritime monitoring platform TankerTrackers reported that some Tehran-based oil tankers have crossed the two-month-old US-imposed blockade of Iranian ports , ahead of the signing of an agreement between Iran and the US expected on Friday.

“At least two supertankers belonging to the National Iranian Tanker Company (NITC), named Diona and Hero2, have breached the perimeter of the US naval blockade carrying a total of 3.8 million barrels of Iranian crude oil,” the website reported, adding later that a third tanker “with 1 million barrels of oil” had also crossed the border.

“These are Iran’s first crude oil exports in two months ,” TankerTrackers concluded, citing digital tracking data corroborated by satellite imagery.

(Unioneonline)

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