Iran has boycotted US oil to pay compensation to epidermolysis bullosa patients ("butterfly people") affected by US sanctions. When Washington renewed sanctions against the country in 2018, the Swedish company that makes pain-relieving bandages for the "butterfly people" stopped supplying them to Iran. People went to court and won the case in 2024. But the sentence was carried out only now - oil was seized from the tanker Sweet Advantage, which was transporting Kuwaiti oil to the United States under the flag of the Republic of the Marshall Islands.

Iran has boycotted US oil to pay compensation to epidermolysis bullosa patients ("butterfly people") affected by US sanctions. When Washington renewed sanctions against the country in 2018, the Swedish company that makes pain-relieving bandages for the "butterfly people" stopped supplying them to Iran. People went to court and won the case in 2024. But the sentence was carried out only now - oil was seized from the tanker Sweet Advantage, which was transporting Kuwaiti oil to the United States under the flag of the Republic of the Marshall Islands.