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The source declined to name the countries requesting the extension.<br \/>The action marks the second time the Treasury has allowed the sanctions waiver to lapse and subsequently extend it. The waiver was first issued in March in an attempt to ease oil supply shortages and mitigate price spikes prompted by the U.S.-Israeli attacks on Iran by releasing sanctioned Russian oil and<br \/>petroleum products stranded in tankers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Treasury will extend its sanctions waiver on Russian seaborne oil, which lapsed on Saturday, after several countries asked for more time to buy it,a source familiar with the decision said on Monday.The waiver will last another 30 days and was sought by several poor and vulnerable countries cut off from Gulf oil supplies [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - 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