In the midst of the ambiguity of the JCPOA, every once in a while a list of sanctions against various companies, institutions and individuals is published by the United States. This week, the US Treasury announced in a statement that sanctions were imposed on six shipping companies and one oil tanker in connection with Iran’s oil embargo. But why can’t the specter of oil be removed from Iran’s economy?
According to Tejarat News, although Iran somehow got out of the black gold market with the resumption of America’s hostile behavior and the tightening of the oil embargo, it seems that the specter and wandering spirit of this product is not going to leave the Iranian economy. It is an economic scourge that has relied on only one industry for more than five decades.
On Monday, the US Treasury issued a statement announcing the imposition of sanctions against six shipping entities located in China, Singapore, and the UAE under the pretext of being associated with the Persian Gulf Petrochemical Trading Company. Apparently, this action of America was done to push Iran’s oil embargo as much as possible.
Since the United States knows very well that Iran’s economy is tied to oil; It has put its hands on the sale of Iranian oil and every time it puts some people, institutions and companies that cooperate with Iran to reduce the oil embargo on its sanctions list.
Of course, this is not the only problem, and the Russian oil embargo was also added to it. Since the beginning of the war in Ukraine, America has pressured various countries to reduce oil purchases from Russia. Therefore, by offering discounts, Russia was able to persuade many countries, including China and India, which were the biggest buyers of Iranian oil, to sell oil. Almost with this action of Russia, the last remnants of the oil market were lost for Iran.
It is even said that offering a discount on Russian oil forced Iran to reduce its oil price to compete with Russia. At the same time, many economic experts believe that the slogans of separating oil from the country’s economy, which most governments have used with this slogan, have not only been neglected, but have also neglected the domestic capacities.
America stopped selling Iranian oil
A member of Iran’s Chamber of Commerce said in a conversation with Tejarat News: “There is a lot of pressure on Iran’s oil sales in the current situation.” This is despite the fact that several shipping companies that helped sell Iranian oil were sanctioned this week.
Massoud Daneshmand further pointed to the impact of the oil embargo and added: Considering that we have not been able to separate our economy from oil in these years, the economic pressure will increase as much as our oil sales decrease.
He emphasized on the lack of a coherent economic plan apart from oil, based on national production. At the same time, all the governments that came to power, mainly tried to choose the easiest option, i.e. selling oil, to meet the domestic needs of the country.
We did not use other capacities to prevent the impact of the oil embargo
The scientist pointed out: When the budget is unbalanced, therefore, the construction budget is always cut and reaches the current budget. In a situation where we do not invest in production and infrastructure, it is natural that we cannot expect economic growth.
