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Iran will continue to increase its oil production until it recovers the market share it lost when international sanctions were imposed due to concerns about Teheran’s nuclear program.
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Iran’s Oil Minister Bijan Zanganeh’s comments are a blow to a deal struck in February between Russia and Saudi Arabia to curb falling global oil prices.
Zanganeh was speaking on April 3 ahead of an April 17 meeting of oil producers in Qatar to discuss a possible output freeze.
Despite his comments, Zanganeh was quoted by the semiofficial Mehr news agency as saying that “the agreement between the world’s top OPEC and non-OPEC exporters such as Saudi Arabia and Russia to freeze output at January levels is a positive step.”
On the possibility of his attending the Doha meeting in Qatar, he said he would certainly attend the meeting “if he had time,” Mehr reported.