The U.S. president Donald Trump and Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu are said to have agreed to press further on economic sanctions against Iran and specifically to reduce the oil export to China by the Iran government.
A report on the subject by the Axios news source notes that the matter was among the top points on the agenda during a recent White House conference with two American officials who were knowledgeable about the negotiations. The leaders are reported to have deliberated on applying the max pressure measures to curb the main source of revenue of Iran, which is the sales of its crude oil.
One of the officials was quoted to say that we decided to go all out and pressure Iran to the fullest, such as on the issue of Iranian sales of oil to China. The new aggressive drive is an indication of a more aggressive approach to Tehran in the light of constant worries regarding its nuclear programme and actions in the region.
China continues to be the biggest purchaser of Iranian crude in that over 80 percent of Iranian seaborne oil exports are sold to China based on 2025 figures in analytics firm Kpler. Even with the prevailing U.S. sanctions, which are supposed to restrain the oil trade between Iran and cut off financing on its nuclear agendas, it has persisted in its shipments to China.
Statistics show that the average daily (bpd) import of Iranian oil in China was 1.38 million barrels (mbd), which equals about 13.4 percent of its total seaborne crude imports of 10.27 million bmd.
According to analysts, any actions to increase the level of enforcement would have wider global oil market, U.S.-China, and Middle East stability implications.
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