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Iran will never sign oil production freeze agreement under preparation in Doha

Iran will never sign oil production freeze agreement under preparation in Doha. (Tass).

Iran will never sign the oil production level freeze agreement undergoing preparation in Doha, official spokesperson of Iran’s Petroleum Ministry Akbar Nematollahi said on Friday in an interview with IRNA news agency.

Iran’s oil minister Bijan Namdar Zanganeh will not attend OPEC's Doha meeting on April 17 in view of earlier scheduled contacts, Nematollahi said.

The spokesman added the minister has announced Iran's positions during bilateral or multi-lateral meetings with OPEC and non-OPEC producers and Iran will never sign Doha upcoming agreement.

Iran's representative in the OPEC Board of Governors Hossein Kazempour Ardabili will represent Iran in the upcoming meeting of OPEC and non-OPEC oil producing nations.

Nematollahi added Iran at the same time supports efforts of oil producing countries to stabilize the global oil market. IRNA reported Iran has always declared that it will not sign oil output freeze plan to retake its share of oil market and promote oil production to pre-sanctions era.

Russia’s Energy Minister Alexander Novak told TASS earlier the oil production freeze agreement may be reached without Iran’s participation.

The issue on keeping the oil production at the level of January 2016 will be discussed at the meeting in Doha on April 17. Most oil producing countries have earlier confirmed their participation.

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Iran oil exports surpasses 2 million bpd, willing to discuss production cuts once it reaches 4 million bpd.

Iran oil exports surpasses 2 million bpd, willing to discuss production cuts once it reaches 4 million bpd.

Iran oil exports surpasses 2 million bpd, willing to discuss production cuts once it reaches 4 million bpd. (Iranfrontpage).

“Iran’s exports of oil and gas condensate are now at more than 2 million barrels per day,” the minister told the Shana news agency in Tehran on Sunday.

Condensate is a light oil that is typically produced in association with natural gas.

Senior nuclear negotiator Abbas Araqchi earlier said Iran had raised its crude oil exports to 1.7 million barrels per day (bpd), but it faced challenges for returning to pre-sanctions levels when the country sold 2.5 million barrels.

“Our customers have gone and concluded deals with other countries. We have to find new clients and nobody can expect us to return to former export rates overnight,” he said.

Araqchi predicted Iran’s oil exports to hit 2.5 million bpd within a year.

The Islamic Republic exported about 1 million bpd of oil under sanctions. Since the lifting of those restrictions, the country has been ramping up production in a bid to regain its market share.

The oil market is saturated amid oversupply by major producers such as Saudi Arabia.

The kingdom is currently pushing for a production freeze provided that other oil producing nations stop their output at current rates.

On Friday, deputy crown prince Mohammed bin Salman said Saudi Arabia would only freeze its oil output if Iran and other major producers did so.

Zangeneh has said Iran would take part in discussions on a possible production freeze after its output reached 4 million barrels per day.

The minister had already dismissed the idea of a production freeze by Iran as “a joke.”

“We do not intend to sanction ourselves again after coming out of the sanctions,” Deputy Petroleum Minister Amir Hossein Zamani said in February.

With Iran under sanctions, Saudi Arabia raised its output to an all-time high of more than 10.5 million barrels a day as did other producers, leading to an oversupply which has caused prices to nosedive around 70% since mid-2014.

Bin Salman’s remarks on Friday left the outcome of a meeting between OPEC and other big oil producers in Doha this month in question and sent prices sharply down.

In London and New York, oil prices sank more than four percent after the comments. Brent crude fell as much as $1.78 to $38.55 a barrel and West Texas Intermediate dropped $1.62 to $36.72 a barrel.

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Iran to Issue Visa on Arrival for Citizens of All But 9 Countries: Spokesman.

Iran to Issue Visa on Arrival for Citizens of All But 9 Countries: Spokesman. (Iranfrontpage).

Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Hossein Jaberi Ansari on Monday announced a decision that will enable the citizens of all but nine countries to obtain Iran’s visa on arrival at the country’s airports.

Iran has decided to issue visa upon arrival at the airport for everyone except the citizens of nine countries, Jaberi Ansari said in his weekly press conference here in Tehran.

“Certain countries like the United States and Britain are exceptions to the immediate issuance (of visa),” he said, adding that the details of the plan and list of the countries excluded will be made public later.

He further explained that the decision to ease the visa regime has been made based on the county’s interests and in line with plans to facilitate the entrance of tourists given the extensive tourism capacities of Iran.

Earlier, Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister for Legal and International Affairs Seyed Abbas Araqchi announced that the country’s foreign ministry will issue 30-day visa for citizens of 180 countries upon their arrival in Iranian airports.

Head of Iran’s Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts and Tourism Organization (ICHHTO) Masoud Soltanifarhad also noted that Iran has formulated plans to increase revenue from the tourism industry within the next ten years to an amount equal to the income generated by oil sales. Hmmm........Israel, US, Great Britain, Saudi Arabia.....

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Obama's BFF: 'Iran to use language of power if necessary to clarify Hajj stampede case' - Rouhani.

Obama's BFF: 'Iran to use language of power if necessary to clarify Hajj stampede case' - Rouhani. (Taz).

Iran's president Hassan Rouhani said Iran may use language of power if necessary, to clarify the Hajj stampede case.

Iran’s language following the incident has been one of emotions, brotherhood, and politeness and where necessary, the diplomatic language has also been used, Rouhani said in Tehran’s Mehrabad Airport, where the bodies of the Iranian victims of the recent Hajj stampede have been brought.

But, if necessary, the Islamic Republic of Iran will use its language of power as well, Rouhani asserted, Trend's correspondent reported from Tehran October 3.

The stampede occurred September 24 in Mina, near Mecca while pilgrims were performing their Hajj ritual. Reportedly, 464 Iranians have died in the incident.

“It should be clarified by any means if some people have been responsible for the case. If it is proven that some [security] forces have had a hand in this, we will not condone the blood of our beloved ones,” Rouhani stressed.

The Iranian president said the issue comes as a test for the Saudi government and international, especially Islamic, organizations.

He urged that a fact-finding committee should be launched to clarify different aspects of the incident.
Rouhani said the taking of the bodies of the dead to Iran is the first step in Iran dealing with the tragedy, adding that the bodies will be buried in cities they belong.

The second step that has to be taken is to identify the remaining bodies, he said.

Iran has called for relegating the handling of the Hajj ritual to the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, saying Riyadh has proven to be incapable of the carrying out the job.


Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has recently said if Saudi Arabia disrespects Iranians, it will face a harsh response from Iran. Hmmm........Hussein Obama has only embolden State sponsor of terrorism Iran.

At U.N., Obama's BFF Rouhani calls for investigation into haj crush.

At U.N., Obama's BFF Iran's Rouhani calls for investigation into haj crush. (Taz).

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani used a major United Nations speech on Saturday to demand an investigation into a crush that killed over 700 people at the haj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia, Reuters reported.

The fact that Rouhani used a U.N. summit meeting on global development goals to reiterate Iran's outrage over the haj tragedy was a sign that Tehran does not intend to tone down criticism of its regional rival Saudi Arabia. Both Iran and the Saudis see themselves as leaders in the Muslim world.

In his speech to the 193-nation U.N. General Assembly, Rouhani emphasized the need for an investigation into "the causes of this incident and other similar incidents in this year's haj." He describe the crush as "heart-rending."

Speaking to reporters before a meeting with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif repeated that "we need to address the disastrous event in Saudi Arabia."  Hmmmm....... Zarif while meeting Kerry also mentioned the "the unfortunate developments in Saudi Arabia over the last week," which he said need to be addressed in the "proper international forum." Seems the 'love' the Obama 'admin' had for the Saudis is dead and buried.

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Today in Iranian hardliner paper:

Let us take a look at this huge gas station (Saudi Arabia) situated in the Arabian Peninsula and try to figure out its political psychology. Prior to the Islamic Revolution and up until this very day Saudi Arabia presents itself as the saintlike figure of the Sunnis and the “Arabs,” especially those who, to one degree or another, fit into an Islamic program. Many Islamic movements in Arab countries (especially Egypt) and Muslim countries (especially Pakistan) have not distanced themselves, much less exposed, the evil incarnate that is Saudi Arabia. As this is the case, Saudi Arabia is a threat on par with Israel to Islamic self-determination and liberation. With events taking a deadly sectarian genocidal turn in Iraq, Syria, Bahrain, and Lebanon it doesn’t take a genius to trace this turmoil and upheaval to the combined malice of Saudi fanaticism and finances.

Islamic Iran — even though today’s political climate does not permit it to say so — has all the right in the world to be skeptical about an Arabia occupied by Saudis. The first apprehension about a Saudized Arabia is its royal family’s permission given to enemies to have multiple military bases in every quadrant of the Arabian Peninsula. Another aspect unsettling to the Islamic State in Iran is Saudi interference in the internal affairs of its neighbors. Another worrying development is the behind-the-scenes collaboration between Arabia’s mushriks and Palestine’s Zionists. King ‘Abdullah’s venomous words some years ago are today’s policies; he spoke to his American political masters telling them to cut off the head of the snake, by which he meant Islamic Iran. What would anyone expect an Islamic state in an ocean of satanic statelets to do? Is it not justified to be mistrustful of and on high guard concerning such psychology and such politics?

Think of yourself as an Islamic policy maker in Tehran; you see the Arabian Saudis scrambling to procure an atomic bomb (news sources say from Pakistan or even from Israel) to use it for purposes of defending themselves from an Islamic neighbor (Iran), which does not have any atomic weapons, whereas in the last half century — since the Zionists acquired their hundreds of nuclear weapons and bombs — the Saudis did not bat an eyelash! It is sad, indeed, to look at the “Islamic movements” that are incapable of standing up to this Saudi servility to granduncle Sam and Benjamin the boss.

The Islamic Republic of Iran, in both the Rafsanjani and Khatami administrations, held out a hand of understanding to Saudi Arabia and its patrons only to be rebuffed and then labeled as a member of “the axis of evil” by the president of the United States, and all but kafirs by Saudi propagandists.

President Rohani runs the risk of becoming another Gorbachev with his Glasnost or ‘Arafat with his “olive branch”; Gorbachev nowadays is nowhere to be found and ‘Arafat is six feet under. The Islamic Republic of the Imam and the martyrs has been the backbone of resistance to Zionism, the gradual assimilation of Iraq, building a bridge out of Syria and supporting the resistance and liberation movement of Hizbullah in Lebanon. This, of course, has not been a bed of roses. The economy of the Islamic Republic is under a worldwide sanctions regime supervised and paid for by that notorious trio: Israel, Saudi Arabia, and the United States government. Located between the average member of the Islamic movement and the average citizen of the Islamic Republic, the government in Tehran finds itself after eight years of a tilt toward the external on its way back in a tilt toward the internal.

President Rohani and his team should be advised that in their ardor to avoid becoming another North Korea or Cuba they run the risk of looking like another Egypt or Saudi Arabia. For the record here, both Rafsanjani’s and Khatami’s administrations were Iran-centric (16 years). Ahmadinejad’s administration (8 years) was not Iran-centric. This would tell us that the gravity of the citizens of the Islamic Republic exceeds the gravity of the members of the Islamic movements. In the opinion of this writer, this is due to the financial strings and fiscal chains the Saudi regime has on the “Sunni” component of the global Islamic movement.

The Islamic movement outside Iran has been living in its own dispersion for generations now. It made its way to parliaments and palaces in — among other places — Egypt and Turkey. And then in Egypt now the Islamic movement is virtually behind bars and in the streets. In Turkey, the military is sharpening its knives and the judiciary is breathing down their necks. After all this, one would think that level-minded people would appreciate an Islamic State that stood the test of time, offered hundreds of thousands of martyrs, and broke new ground in Islamic governance.

If anything, we salute the insight, the endurance, and the intelligence of this revolution and congratulate it on its 35th year of pioneering the way to a better tomorrow for the Muslims and the oppressed. And most importantly, in this writer’s opinion, we salute the Islamic Revolution for exposing the evildoing of the Saudi ruling class. Every commendation of the Islamic leadership in Iran is by necessity a condemnation of the anti-Islamic rulers in Arabia.
Are We to render those who yield [to Allah’s power and authority] on par with those who are criminals? (68:35).