Iran Earned $18 Billion in Oil Sales During Active War, Minister Says
🛢️ SANCTIONS — The blockade holds at Hormuz, but Iran's oil money kept flowing. 📌 LOOK CLOSER: $18B in wartime oil revenue means the sanctions architecture — the economic spine of US coercive strategy — leaked badly. Buyers are China and intermediaries Washington won't sanction. This undercuts the leverage model: if Tehran funds the war regardless, the pause offer carries less bite. Variable: whether Congress demands Treasury explain the enforcement gap.
