Iran–China Chamber head warned of the staggering cost of a maritime blockade for Iran’s economy.

The head of the Iran–China Chamber of Commerce, warning about the staggering costs of the United States’ maritime blockade, said that replacing the sea route with the road would impose an additional cost of about $18 billion on Iran’s economy; meanwhile, each container on the land route costs $12,000 instead of $3,000 on the sea route. He encouraged the government to break the blockade even by conventional methods, and said these conditions not only reduce trade to 20 percent of its actual capacity, but also lead to shortages of European medicines and the suspension of shipments of medicine ships from India. In addition, the maritime blockade has targeted Iran’s oil revenues, and in the first two weeks of the latest wave, it left the country without $4.8 billion in oil sales.