{"id":660514,"date":"2026-05-14T12:01:30","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T06:31:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=660514"},"modified":"2026-05-14T12:42:52","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T07:12:52","slug":"malaysia-says-iranian-oil-transfers-near-its-waters-exploit-a-maritime-loophole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/malaysia-says-iranian-oil-transfers-near-its-waters-exploit-a-maritime-loophole\/","title":{"rendered":"Malaysia says Iranian oil transfers near its waters exploit a maritime loophole"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia &#8216;s maritime agency says Iranian-linked tankers are exploiting &#8220;jurisdictional gaps&#8221; to conduct ship-to-ship transfers of sanctioned oil near its waters, rejecting allegations that authorities ignored a long-running trade allowing Iran to evade US sanctions.<\/p>\n<p>US based advocacy group United Against Nuclear Iran (UANI) and shipping industry observers say waters near Malaysia&#8217;s southern Johor state have become a key hub for ship-to-ship transfers involving Iran&#8217;s &#8220;shadow fleet&#8221;, aging tankers that often operate with disabled tracking systems, false identities and opaque ownership structures to conceal the origins of crude bound largely for China.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia &#8216;s maritime agency says Iranian-linked tankers are exploiting &#8220;jurisdictional gaps&#8221; to conduct ship-to-ship transfers of sanctioned oil near its waters, rejecting allegations that authorities ignored a long-running trade allowing Iran to evade US sanctions. US based advocacy group United Against Nuclear Iran (UANI) and shipping industry observers say waters near Malaysia&#8217;s southern Johor state have become a key hub for ship-to-ship transfers involving Iran&#8217;s &#8220;shadow fleet&#8221;, aging tankers that often operate with disabled tracking systems, false identities and opaque ownership structures to conceal the origins of crude bound largely for China.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,219,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-660514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-the-times-of-india","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=660514"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":660516,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660514\/revisions\/660516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=660514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=660514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=660514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}