00:00When you see groups of motorcycles at the Iran-Pakistan border, don't assume something major is happening.
00:04They're not a convoy, not heading for a fight, they're transporting oil back and forth to sell.
00:09Unlike large tanker trucks, this oil doesn't move through official channels.
00:13These are border villagers independently transporting oil to sell in surrounding areas.
00:17Iran has abundant oil resources, but long-term Western sanctions have restricted oil sales in certain regions.
00:23So border residents load oil onto vehicles and move it through routes near the border to earn income.
00:27The most common method is motorcycle transport.
00:30Both sides of a motorcycle loaded with oil drums, slowly moving along narrow, winding mountain roads.
00:35Pickup trucks are also common truck beds packed with oil drums crossing rugged mountain terrain in long convoys.
00:40Those near the coast have another option, loading oil onto small boats and reaching destinations by sea, avoiding mountain roads
00:45entirely.
00:46Once they reach the border trading point, they pour the oil directly into vertical wells in the ground.
00:51These wells connect through underground pipes to the other side where pumps extract the oil up.
00:56That's how the oil gets sold and income is earned.
00:58that's how the oil goes inside.
00:58So the oil one makes eight miles an odd Presence and земlets for diggering the oil into the igniwork zone.
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