A businessman granted asylum in Britain is at the centre of a billion-dollar oil smuggling operation that is helping to finance Iran’s overseas terrorism and domestic repression, according to US officials.
Salim Ahmed Said has been accused by the Trump administration of running a network of companies illicitly trading in Iranian oil by passing it off as a product of neighbouring Iraq.
Profits from the sophisticated smuggling operation are alleged to have been sent to Iran in trucks full of cash, which is used to bankroll the activities of an elite wing of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).
