Iran has long taken enormous pride in its ability to side-step the sanctions against oil exports imposed by the West. As its then-Foreign Minister, Mohammad Zarif, stated in December 2018 at the Doha Forum: “If there is an art that we have perfected in Iran, [that] we can teach to others for a price, it is the art of evading sanctions.” It is Iraq that has been the pivotal enabler of this, from the beginning of the process to the end, as analysed in depth in my new book on the new global oil market order . ...