Iran

Turkey has signed a preliminary gas deal with Iran, which is to give Turkey the development rights to three phases of Iran's South Pars gas field and make Iran a main supplier for... 2007-07-17

Iran plans to privatise 17 firms in the energy sector according to a statement made by Mehdi Aghdaie, deputy head of the state privatisation organisation, to the Fars News Organisation,... 2007-07-16

Venezuelan state-owned company PDVSA and Belarus are planning to intensify their cooperation in the Venezuelan energy sector. President Hugo Chávez met his Belarus counterpart... 2007-07-13

The outgoing Iranian ambassador to Austria, Seyed Mohsen Nabavi, has claimed that Vienna supports OMV's activity in Iran, according to an interview in Wiener Zeitung newspaper. The... 2007-07-09

Following visits to Russia and Belarus, Venezuela's President Hugo Chávez met his Iranian counterpart Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on July 2 in his quest to form an alliance of 'leftist'... 2007-07-03

Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announced the decision to ration fuel consumption just hours before the decision came into effect at midnight on Wednesday 27 June.

The violence resulting from this decision puts already embattled President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad under even greater pressure, in line with our previous suggestions that his domestic... 2007-06-27

The flurry of diplomatic activity seen recently on the diplomatic stand-off over Iran's nuclear ambitions bodes well for the continuation of diplomacy rather than military confrontation,... 2007-06-26

Iran's Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA) has reported that the state's first privately-owned refinery has become operational. The news supports BMI 's view that Iran will become... 2007-06-15

Shana, the news agency of the Iranian Ministry of Petroleum, has announced that Algeria's state-owned Sonatrach is considering investment in the South Pars liquefied natural gas... 2007-06-12