News Snapshot:
There is finally a US plan for trying to pressure Iran into coming back to the 2015 JCPOA nuclear deal and complying with IAEA inspections. The problem is that the plan is booby-trapped and almost certainly condemned to failure in advance. As of late Tuesday, Reuters reported that the US and the EU will turn to China to try to get it to reduce its oil purchases from the Islamic Republic. Recent reports estimate Chinese imports at 553,000 barrels of oil per day for 2021. Though this is still a far cry from what China was and might be imported...
