0555 GMT: Protest Watch. A group of former MPs, now living in exile, have asked Iranians to attend opposition rallies tomorrow. Signatories include Fatemeh Haghighatjoo, Ahmad Salamatian, Ismael Gerami Moghaddam, Ali Mazrooei, and Hassan Yousefi Eshkevari.
0540 GMT: We open this morning with yet another sign of the tightening grip on the Iranian economy.
Owners controlling more than 125 supertankers, including carriers such as the Overseas Shipholding Group and Frontline Ltd. have said they will stop loading oil cargoes from Iran.
OSG, based in New York, said on Thursday that its pool of 45 supertankers from seven owners will no longer go to Iran. Nova Tankers A/S and Frontline, with a combined 93 vessels, said last week they are halting operations.
An European Union decision to cut supplies from Iran from 1 July appears to have been the decisive facotr, as it extended the ban to ship insurance.
“It’s the insurance that’s completed the ban on trading with Iran,” said Per Mansson, the managing director of Norocean Stockholm AB, which handles tanker charters. “Last summer, many countries started to be a little bit tougher, but the insurance is the real trigger.”
OSG’s last loading appears to have been on 28 January from Kharg Island.
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