Iran’s oil minister warned Turkey on Sunday not to re-export the Islamic state’s natural gas to other countries.
Iran has been exporting gas to Turkey since 2001 under a $23 billion agreement signed in 1996.
Tehran has been slow to develop other gas export markets. “Based on the agreement, Turkey has no legal right to export Iran’s gas to other countries,” said Oil Minister Kazem Vaziri-Hamaneh.
(Reuters, 25/02/2007)