Candidates’ propaganda maneuver on Iran’s refinery construction in Venezuela

According to Energy Press, Morteza Behrouzifar said about the maneuver of some presidential candidates on Iran’s refinery construction in Venezuela: that Iran invests in the downstream part of the target countries for oil exports is a positive step, that is, instead of exporting crude oil, we can produce products in these countries. have and issue, although this policy is not relevant now.

He added: Before the revolution, refinery construction projects were pursued by the National Oil Company in countries such as South Africa or India, but due to the problems that arose during apartheid, Iran could not refine oil in this country. The main issue is that Iran in the refinery It is acceptable for an individual or the Iranian government to refine Iranian oil in other countries and offer it to the market, and it is the policy of Iran more than 60 to 70 years ago, and major producing countries such as Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and the UAE also follow this policy.

This energy expert clarified: The issue is that if we use this method to bypass the embargo, it is pointless because even if we want to, we cannot transfer oil to Venezuela even for refining, and the refinery will remain unused because the embargo makes it difficult. Before the revolution, we had a refinery in South Africa, but due to the sanctions imposed by the United Nations and the Security Council against the apartheid regime at that time, Iran was not able to transfer oil to that country and was practically forced to hand over the refinery, so we can only sanction by building a refinery. It is futile to bypass it.