Government spokeswoman Fatemeh Mohajerani called the sanctions on the oil minister illegal.
The First Vice President said at the first meeting of the "Regional Energy Trade Steering Committee": "The Islamic Republic of Iran must become the regional energy trade center, and achieving this goal is of great importance to the 14th government and is part of our strategies that we are pursuing seriously."
The government spokesman, noting that the Ministry of Oil is one of the most important ministries on the front lines of sanctions, wrote on the X social network: "Iran's oil exports cannot be stopped."
The CEO of the Petroleum Engineering and Development Company announced the round-the-clock efforts of the executive groups to launch the first section of the crude oil processing unit of the South Azadegan Joint Field, saying: "This unit will soon enter production."
The latest calculations conducted by the Research Center of the Islamic Consultative Assembly show that the added value of oil and natural gas has grown by 6.5%.
US Energy Secretary Chris Wright has announced that the Trump administration is prepared to impose sanctions on Iranian oil production. In an interview with Bloomberg on Monday, Wright said that during Trump’s first term, “Iranian oil exports have been reduced to a very limited level.”
The National Southern Oilfields Company and the Exploration Management of the National Iranian Oil Company signed a memorandum of understanding to cooperate in exploration, development, and production processes.
The Foreign Ministry spokesman described the claims made by Reuters news agency about stopping Iranian tankers as a form of production or dissemination of untrue, false, or biased news, and said: "There is no basis for any action against free trade and commercial ships of countries in open waters."
Continuing this situation will destroy the livelihoods of offshore facility workers, accelerate the exodus of specialists, and spell a bleak future for Iran's largest offshore company.
The 13th government, with its plethora of oil promises and grandiose contracts, left behind a record full of failures and broken promises. From the $40 billion memorandum of understanding with Russia's Gazprom to the €9 billion Shahid Soleimani refinery project, none of them were completed.