mo4ch:>Iran has new ‘potential’ buyers for its oil, defying US sanctions | Mo4ch News

Despite biting US sanctions and pressure on other countries, Tehran has found partners to buy its oil, and the number of such clients has actually increased, according to Iran’s deputy oil minister.After the US pulled out of the landmark nuclear deal and re-imposed sanctions on the Islamic Republic, several nations were temporarily allowed to buy its oil, including India, South Korea and China. However, even those clients are under “financial pressure” from Washington, and are therefore very cautious about dealing with Tehran, one of the top Iranian oil officials, Amir Hossein Zamaninia, revealed.“China, India, South Korea and all other countries, which the US granted waivers to buy oil from Iran, would not even buy an additional one barrel of oil from Iran,” he was quoted as saying by the Oil Ministry’s Shana news agency on Saturday.Also on rt.comIndia’s purchases of sanctioned Iranian crude to eclipse last year’s levelWhile there is little hope that the 180-day US waivers for those …