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标题：U.S. envoy insists no more waivers for buyers of Iran's oil
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作者：Bruce Stanley ; Manus Cranny
期刊名称：World Oil Magazine
出版年度：2019
期号：1
页码：1-1
出版社：Gulf Publishing Co.
摘要：DUBAI and LONDON (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. plans to grant no new waivers to buyers of Iranian oil as it intensifies efforts to eliminate the Middle Eastern producer’s exports of crude, a senior official said. U.S. sanctions have so far cut Iran’s exports to about 1 MMbopd from a level of 2.7 MMbbl before Washington announced sanctions on the country. Of the eight buyers that secured initial U.S. waivers to buy oil from Iran, only five are still doing so, Brian Hook, the State Department’s special representative for Iran, said in an interview. “We are not looking to grant any new waivers -- that’s been our policy from the beginning,” Hook said. “We’ve been able to achieve a lot of economic pressure on Iran. Eighty percent of their revenues come from oil exports. We want to deny the Iranian regime the revenue that it uses to destabilize the Middle East.” The U.S. withdrew from the Iran nuclear accord in May and imposed sanctions targeting the country’s sales of oil, its economic lifeblood. U.S. President Donald Trump accused Iran of sponsoring terrorism and seeking to develop nuclear weapons technology, and he has marshaled support in the Middle East and beyond to isolate the nation economically. Tehran maintains that it seeks atomic power solely for civilian purposes.