Inside The Secret Russian-Iranian Military-Energy-Pipeline Laundering Machine

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The article describes alleged mechanisms used by Russian and Iranian networks to evade sanctions involving military activity, energy, and pipeline trade. It says the EU may be continuing to circumvent restrictions on Russian energy imports despite a planned ban on long-term Russian LNG imports from January 2027.

As has been proven time and time again in multiple scenarios: ‘Where there’s a will, there’s a way around any sanctions’ and, despite looming deadlines to end all Russian oil and gas imports -- with promises to keep reducing them before that -- the European Union (EU) appears to be continuing to play a sanctions-skirting game with Moscow. Under the strict terms of Regulation (EU) 2026/261, a hard legal cliff drops on 1 January 2027, completely banning all long-term Russian liquefied natural gas (LNG) imports, followed by…