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- Bangladesh
- Iraq
- Myanmar
Iranian sales of jet fuel and urea to Myanmar have enabled a bombing campaign by Myanmar's military junta. Two sanctioned Iranian tankers, Reef and Noble, together delivered approximately 175,000 tons of jet fuel in nine shipments between October 2024 and December 2025. The vessels manipulated their AIS trackers to make it appear that they were travelling between Basra, Iraq, and the port of Chittagong in Bangladesh, when in fact they were transporting fuel from a National Iranian Oil Refining and Distribution Company (NIORDC) refinery in Bandar Abbas to the Myan Oil Terminal near Yangon. The Myan terminal is connected to entities that have been sanctioned for supplying the junta with jet fuel. In the past three years, Iran has also supplied Myanmar with an estimated 400,000 to 600,000 tons of urea annually. The bulk cargo vessels Golden ES and Rasha both made deliveries of urea, which the Myanmar military uses to produce bombs and other explosives.
