Iran has signed a deal with Afghanistan to supply its neighbor with a million tons of fuel oil, petrol and aviation fuel a year, Iranian media reported Tuesday without putting a value on the agreement.
Iran
has
signed a deal with
Afghanistan
to
supply its neighbor with a million tons of fuel oil, petrol and aviation fuel a
year, Iranian media reported Tuesday without putting a value on the agreement.
The accord was signed Monday by the Afghan trade and industry minister, Anwar
Ul-Haq Ahady, and
Iran
's
deputy oil minister, Alireza Zeyghami.
Two-thirds of the export deal was for fuel oil, a category that includes diesel
and fuel for agricultural, industrial and heating uses, according to Zeyghami. A
quarter was for petrol and around 10% was jet fuel, he said.
The agreement was announced as
Iran
is
subject to Western sanctions against its oil and gas sectors over
Tehran
's
controversial nuclear program. The
U.S.
and
Europe
are
poised to increase sanctions in coming weeks.
Iran
's oil
ministry in February said it hoped
Afghanistan
would
buy "all its needed [fuel] products from
Iran
."
But the Afghan government responded by saying it could not afford to do so and
would continue to also buy from central
Asia
and
Pakistan
.
About one third of
Afghanistan
's
fuel needs, imported from
Russia
,
Turkmenistan
and
Iraq
,
transit through
Iran
.
At the end of 2010, the Islamic republic blocked that transport, saying it
suspected the fuel could be used to supply
U.S.
and
other NATO troops in
Afghanistan
, but
the row later subsided.
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