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After Iraqi Oil Blending Scheme, Iran Found Better way to Evade US Sanctions

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  An apparent scheme by Iran and its shipping industry allies to blend U.S.-sanctioned Iranian oil with Iraqi oil in 2020 was short-lived, Tehran dropped it in favor of a more efficient way to evade sanctions on its oil exports. UAE-based businessman and several companies he either owns or is connected to via common email and corporate addresses were engaged in blending Iranian and Iraqi oil on tankers through ship-to-ship transfers of crude and refined oil products in the Persian Gulf as recently as 2020. It said the scheme enabled those involved to disguise the blended oil’s Iranian origin and brand the product as Iraqi in order to avoid U.S. sanctions targeting Iranian oil. The operation in which an Iran-owned tanker named Polaris 1 transferred Iranian fuel oil, a refined product, onto another tanker carrying Iraqi oil in March 2020. The second tanker was named the Babel and was operated at the time by Rhine Shipping DMCC, a company run by UAE-based businessman Salim Ahmed ...
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A Croydon man who stalked woman and sent her condoms in the post is jailed

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Choudhury met the woman who was his main victim at Croydon College and subjected her and her family to obsessive harassment and abuse for two years   A Croydon man has been jailed after stalking a woman who he sent condoms in the post to try and shame her. Fahim Choudhury, 28, of Edridge Road, was jailed last Tuesday (August 8) for two counts of stalking at Croydon Crown Court. The 28-year-old was sentenced to 18 months in prison for one count and nine months for the other, to run concurrently. A 10-year restraining order was also issued to prevent him from contacting his victims. Choudhury met the woman who was his main victim at Croydon College and subjected her and her family to obsessive harassment and abuse for two years. He would send obscene letters, cards and texts to her while posting items such as condoms, thongs and pregnancy tests to try and shame the woman. He would also send frightening messages saying where she was and what she was wearing. And he was found hanging a...
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