Oil Dips as US Weighs Sanctions on Iran Shadow Fleet
🛢️ SHADOW FLEET — Sanctions talk moves oil down; the fleet is what keeps Iran solvent. 📌 LOOK CLOSER: Iran's shadow fleet is the sanctions bypass that's kept export revenue flowing at war pace. US targeting it now — not after midterms — suggests Treasury is doing what the Pentagon isn't. Each vessel blacklisted tightens Iran's cash flow without a strike. But shadow fleets adapt; Russia's did. Markets dip on the signal, not the effect.