The second Trump administration is seeking to impose sanctions on 35 companies and ships to increase pressure on Iran, but experts believe that market conditions and the lack of support from China and Arab countries will prevent this from happening.
It might not be wrong to claim that the 1990s were one of the most corrupt decades in Iran's oil history. The decade in which the massive Petrochemicalgate corruption scandal was revealed was close to the same years in which the issue of missing oil rigs became a subject of black satire.
Chevron's CEO announced that Washington's current sanctions against Tehran have only changed the export route of Iranian oil shipments.
Abbas Akhundi revealed the nature of China-Iran relations during Ahmadinejad's reign.
The head of the Environmental Protection Agency stated that desirable measures have been taken to reduce pollutants resulting from burning gas in flares in the oil-rich areas of the south, and said: "Achieving the desired result requires further follow-up and appropriate and rational timing."
According to a report by the Statistical Center of Iran, in the first 6 months of this year, we witnessed a 4% economic growth in gross domestic product with oil.
A member of the Energy Commission of the Islamic Consultative Assembly said: "The government has a serious determination to strengthen the country's oil and gas industry and is also sending a message to its enemies that it will not surrender to external threats and pressures and will continue its development and progress in the oil industry."
The recent sanctions on Gazprombank have raised serious concerns in the European Union about the threat to its energy security, which could potentially extend to Gazprom itself. If that happens, Tehran could take advantage of the gas deal with Moscow and transit surplus Russian gas to its neighbors.
The heavy lock on the doors of Iran's oil industry to the world is weighing more heavily than ever on the life of this large and vital industry of the country.
The head of the Process Engineering Group of the Technical Standards and Regulations Department of the General Directorate of the Technical, Executive and Evaluation System of the Engineering, Research and Technology Department of the Ministry of Oil said: "To become an energy hub in the region, we must achieve world-class technology so that we can compete with companies such as Aramco and Qatar Petroleum."