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Source: http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2013/10/28/black_navy_iran_syria_oil?wp_login_redirect=0
Iran Pays Assad's Energy Bill
(Foreign Policy) Michael Weiss - Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps' Quds Force has been training and financing a host of Shiite and Alawite sectarian militias in Syria. Moreover, documents obtained by Foreign Policy indicate that Iran "sold" 4 million barrels of crude oil over the last year to Syria at a 10% discount, paid out of a long-term $3.6 billion line of credit for energy imports that Tehran issued Damascus a few months ago. Not only are the Iranians selling Assad oil at a bargain, but they're floating him the money to buy it.