Tehran, YJC. One year after news broke out that Iran had exported oil to North Korea Iranian official denies the report.
The Director of International and Trade Affairs of Iran’s
Oil Ministry said that news about Iran selling North Korea oil last year are
not true.
"Last year in the sidelines of the oil exhibition North
Korea started talks with Iran over crude oil import. Does Iran now export oil
to that country?” asked Tasnim news reporter when Ali Majedi answered "I
strongly deny oil export to North Korea.”
Tasnim reports that last year the then Oil Minister Rostam
Qasemi had stated that Iran and North Korea were engaged in oil deals.
It goes that in the negotiations it was agreed that Iran would
sell a daily average of 110 to 130 thousand barrels crude oil plus four million
liters of oil products to North Korea. It was also asserted that Iran would be
helping North Korea with refinement projects.
Around last September China stopped an Iranian oil cargo
that headed to North Korea.