A dispute involving the Panama, Iran and the U.S. continued to develop over the weekend, with the Iranian authorities seekig to play down a claim by the Panama Maritime Authority (AMP) that it had cancelled the registration of 136 Iranian-linked ships in the past four years over concerns about sanctions-busting.
The dispute began on January 16, when former Florida governor Jeb Bush wrote an article in the Washington Post in which he claimed that Panama had been “instrumental in the [Iranian] regime’s continued survival”, enabling Tehran to smuggle oil and gas around the world.
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