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Insight: Iran's Revolutionary Guards extend control over Tehran's oil exports, sources say

  • Bias Rating

    -10% Center

  • Reliability

    80% ReliableGood

  • Policy Leaning

    -10% Center

  • Politician Portrayal

    -3% Negative

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-7% Negative

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53% : As part of their expansion in the industry, the Guards have muscled in on the territory of state institutions such as the National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC) and its NICO oil trading subsidiary, according to four of the sources.
52% : The IRGC proved adept at finding ways to sell oil even under sanctions pressure, said Nephew, who was actively involved in tracking Iranian oil activities then.Iranian oil revenues hit $53 billion in 2023 compared with $54 billion in 2022, $37 billion in 2021 and $16 billion in 2020, according to estimates, opens new tab from the U.S. government's Energy Information Administration.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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