Monday cover: Benteke bites back as Liverpool earn last-gasp win at Crystal Palace


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Christian Benteke and Emre Can celebrate on The National Sport front page on Monday, March 7 after the Belgian striker scored a last minute penalty to earn Liverpool a late win at Crystal Palace.

Liverpool were aiming to follow up their impressive midweek win over Manchester City at Selhurst Park, and at 1-0 down and reduced to 10 men after James Milner was sent off in the second half, it was not looking good for Jurgen Klopp’s side.

However, Brazilian forward Roberto Firmino equalised with 18 minutes to go before substitute Benteke was fouled in the area in the fourth minute of added time, with the striker converting from the spot.

Richard Jolly was at Selhurst Park and gives his take on the match.

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Iran's dirty tricks to dodge sanctions

There’s increased scrutiny on the tricks being used to keep commodities flowing to and from blacklisted countries. Here’s a description of how some work.

1 Going Dark

A common method to transport Iranian oil with stealth is to turn off the Automatic Identification System, an electronic device that pinpoints a ship’s location. Known as going dark, a vessel flicks the switch before berthing and typically reappears days later, masking the location of its load or discharge port.

2. Ship-to-Ship Transfers

A first vessel will take its clandestine cargo away from the country in question before transferring it to a waiting ship, all of this happening out of sight. The vessels will then sail in different directions. For about a third of Iranian exports, more than one tanker typically handles a load before it’s delivered to its final destination, analysts say.

3. Fake Destinations

Signaling the wrong destination to load or unload is another technique. Ships that intend to take cargo from Iran may indicate their loading ports in sanction-free places like Iraq. Ships can keep changing their destinations and end up not berthing at any of them.

4. Rebranded Barrels

Iranian barrels can also be rebranded as oil from a nation free from sanctions such as Iraq. The countries share fields along their border and the crude has similar characteristics. Oil from these deposits can be trucked out to another port and documents forged to hide Iran as the origin.

* Bloomberg

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