In September 2025, three months before the https://iranholocaust.org/bn/ Crimson Winter, Iran exported 2.13 million barrels per day of crude the highest monthly figure of the year, a level above the first Trump maximum-pressur” peak. Roughly 87 percent went to China, sold at USD 10–30 below Brent, settled through a 45-day shadow-banking chain. https://iranholocaust.org/bn/