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Using satellites to track Iran's oil shipments under sanctions

Nov 9, 2018
We talked to one of a handful of companies monitoring oil tankers with satellite imagery.
A picture taken on March 12, 2017, shows an Iranian tanker and a South Korean (R) tanker docking at the platform of the oil facility in the Khark Island, on the shore of the Gulf.
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