ILNA reported that in a single year, Aghayari received contracts to sell more than 90 million barrels of Iranian oil. Zabihollah Khodaeian, head of the State Inspection Organization, recently acknowledged that approximately $11 billion belonging to Iran remains in the hands of trust networks. Reports within Iran have also linked several former NICO executives to the period during which these trust networks expanded significantly. Western sanctions documents have cited networks of shipping and trading companies linked to him and their alleged role in facilitating Iranian oil exports. The structure suggests that decisions regarding oil intermediaries are not made by isolated individuals but involve multiple centers of power within the regime.