Iran Courts New Energy Partners as Sanctions Drive Strategic Pivot

Iran is open to international partnerships in the oil and gas industry, offering “golden investment opportunities” in the area, oil minister Mohsen Paknejad said this week, during a meeting with a senior Belarusian official. Paknejad added that Tehran had already built a portfolio of contracts with what Mehr News cited him as describing as “friendly nations”, at his meeting with Belarusian energy minister Andrei Kuznetsov. The statement follows a higher-level meeting between the presidents of Iran and Belarus, where they…