Tag: Iran

Friday, September 30th 2016 - 15:00 UTC
Where will oil prices go after Algiers?

Saudi Arabia and Iran may yet come to terms on some sort of production arrangement, but the outcome of the negotiations in Algeria this week may not do much to rescue oil prices. Following the media spectacle, the oil markets may have to shift their attention back to the supply and demand fundamentals, which are not reassuring
Wednesday, September 28th 2016 - 12:26 UTC
Iran-Saudi Arabia can't agree on limiting oil supply: “maybe in November”

Iran rejected on Tuesday an offer from Saudi Arabia to limit its oil output in exchange for Riyadh cutting supply, dashing market hopes the two major OPEC producers would find a compromise this week to help ease a global glut of crude.
Monday, August 29th 2016 - 04:11 UTC
Venezuela and Iran announce new “dynamic bilateral relations”

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro named Chief General Jesus Gonzalez as the country's new ambassador to Iran on Saturday, while announcing the beginning of a new dynamic era in Caracas-Tehran bilateral relations.
Monday, February 1st 2016 - 06:22 UTC
Venezuelan lobbying for oil production reduction: tour begins Monday in Russia

Venezuelan Oil Minister Eulogio Del Pino will visit Russia, Qatar, Iran and Saudi Arabia on a tour of OPEC and non-OPEC countries intended to drum up support for action to stem the tumble in crude prices.
Thursday, January 28th 2016 - 06:19 UTC
Iran says economic growth crucial to defeating extremism in the Middle East

Generating economic growth in the Middle East is crucial to defeating extremism, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said putting forward his country as a regional trade hub and pillar of stability. Rouhani is on a four-day trip to Italy and France, looking to rebuild Iranian relations with the West some two weeks after financial sanctions on Tehran were rolled back following the implementation of its nuclear deal with world powers.
Wednesday, January 20th 2016 - 07:57 UTC
Teheran and Spain discussing an Iranian refinery in Algeciras, across from Gibraltar

The governments of Spain and Iran are discussing the possible construction of an Iranian-owned refinery in Algeciras, Spain and across from Gibraltar, after the Islamic Republic re-opens for business following the lifting of international sanctions.
Monday, January 18th 2016 - 05:34 UTC
War between Saudi Arabia and Iran could send oil prices to $250

By James Stafford of Oilprice.com - The rift between Saudi Arabia and Iran has quickly ballooned into the worst conflict in decades between the two countries. The back-and-forth escalation quickly turned the simmering tension into an overt struggle for power in the Middle East
Monday, December 28th 2015 - 07:14 UTC
Argentina's MOU with Iran sponsored by Cristina Fernandez, dropped by Macri

Argentina's divisive 2013 Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Iran was finally dropped became after Argentine Federal Judges Juan Carlos Gemignani and Angela Ledesma accepted a request filed by the president Mauricio Macri administration Justice Ministry to drop the Executive’s appeal to the Federal Cassation Court.
Monday, December 21st 2015 - 06:32 UTC
Timerman admits in 2012 recording that Iran 'planted the bombs' at AMIA

Argentine journalist Daniel Santoro on Friday revealed two recordings in which former Argentine Foreign Minister Hector Timerman is heard admitting that Iran “planted the bombs” that demolished the AMIA Jewish community center in Buenos Aires in 1994.
Tuesday, November 24th 2015 - 14:53 UTC
Summit of gas exporting countries opened in Tehran with nine leaders attending

A landmark summit of the Gas Exporting Countries Forum (GECF) has opened in the Iranian capital Tehran with the participation of the heads of nine member states. Presidents of Iran, Russia, Venezuela, Iraq, Bolivia, Equatorial Guinea, Nigeria, Turkmenistan as well as the Algerian prime minister are the key participants.