As paradoxical as it may seem, since the beginning of the war, Iran has started to receive much higher revenues from the sale of its oil and gas sector products than before the war.

Full management of the Strait of Hormuz has enabled this country to export its own oil and gas resources in an almost unlimited way, especially in the conditions of their inflation in the world market, and to charge money for transit through the strait from oil tankers of other countries.

The forced easing of American sanctions on Iranian oil has also created a new opportunity.

According to the Iranian side, Iran’s oil exports have increased by about 4 percent, and in 2019, in the face of a catastrophic decrease in the volume of oil and liquid gas exports from all countries of the Persian Gulf. For the first time since then, India has started buying Iranian liquefied natural gas.

Iranologist Vardan Voskanyan

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