Iran only earns the price of a barrel in five

Maliki’s date, a former US Treasury official and former head of the Global Targeting Office for sanctions, revealed that the sanctions imposed on the Iranian regime led to the loss of most of its oil revenues in corrupt smuggling networks, so that Tehran only gets the price of one barrel out of five barrels issued.

In an interview with “Iran International”, Maliki said: “Iran sells its oil through corrupt networks, people and institutions that have been imposed on international sanctions. Even the price of one barrel out of five is not guaranteed to reach the system. The largest part of the money is wasted on transportation, discounts, and commissions that are paid to multiple layers of corrupt actors. It is an economic activity without success.” What previously worked in the US Air Force, that Tehran has developed complex mechanisms to circumvent the sanctions, including the use of a “ghost fleet” from oil tankers that extinguish the transmitters and resort to transportation operations from one ship to another, in an attempt to hide the oil source. And its regional activities. He said: “The Iranian regime has spent oil and gas revenues on its allies and militias. This money is the right of the people, but it has not been used one day in its service, but to pressure it and suppress it. Quds Radwa, ”which hides its economic activities under the cover of charitable work, while controlling vital sectors such as minerals, petrochemicals and agriculture. Maliki continued:“ These institutions are stealing from the people and participating in financing terrorism instead of developing the Iranian economy. ”In a related context, he mentioned that American and Israeli attacks in June 2025 destroyed basic parts of the Iranian nuclear program, which prompted the United States, which prompted the United States, which prompted the United States, which prompted the United States, which prompted the United States To demand urgent steps from Tehran to fulfill its nuclear obligations. France, Germany and Britain also activated the “trigger mechanism”, which may lead to the reimposition of international sanctions on Iran. He pointed out that the nuclear program cost Iran between 500 billion dollars and a dollar, which is equivalent to about 17 to 20 years of Iranian oil revenues, but it produced only 11 to 12% of the country’s electricity, at a time when the Iranians are witnessing frequent electricity interruptions that strongly affected daily life The economy. Maliki concluded by saying: “Even if the nuclear program was peaceful, it was not an economic logical at any time. Iran could, at only 15 billion euros, was to build sufficient generation stations to avoid the electricity crisis.”