LUKoil continues its supplies to Iran

http://blog.lefigaro.fr/malbrunot/2010/04/petrole-lukoil-cesse-ses-fourn.html

To avoid U.S. sanctions, the Russian oil company LUKoil has stopped its trade with Iran, including supplies of gasoline from its terminals in the Middle East and transporting crude from the Caspian Sea to the port Iran's Neka, announced today sources close to the Russian oil giant.

Over the last three months, the commercial arm of LUKoil in Geneva Litasco had delivered at least a cargo of gasoline with a volume of 30 000 m3 to the Iranian port of Bandar Abbas.

Only a half-dozen companies still provide gasoline to Iran, especially trading companies Vitol and Trafigura Switzerland.

The pressure from the United States on Moscow to harden its position on the Iranian nuclear dossier So finally punch their weight. Russia is now more hostile to sanctions against Iran, suspected by the West to hide a nuclear program for military purposes. The United States and France hope to achieve in the coming weeks an agreement in the Security Council of the United Nations to adopt sanctions against the Iranian regime.