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 TEHRAN – Ambassadors of a number of European Union countries have asked the Iranian parliament to suspend the plan calling for a halt to Iran’s oil exports to certain EU states, according to MP Nasser Soudani.
The EU formally imposed an oil embargo on Iran and agreed to a freeze on the assets of the Central Bank of Iran on January 23, but existing contracts will be honored until July 1.
It was announced on January 5 that the Iranian parliament had been discussing a plan calling for a halt to Iran’s oil exports to the European countries that voted for sanctions on Iran’s oil industry.
“So far a number of ambassadors of European countries, including France, Greece, Italy, and Germany, have frantically come to the parliament and the Foreign Ministry asking the Majlis to practice self-restraint in regard to the ratification of the plan to cut oil exports to Europe,” Soudani, who is a member of the Majlis Energy Committee, told the Persian service of the Fars News Agency on Saturday.
“In the messages they have directly or indirectly sent to the Majlis, the ambassadors have called for a moratorium so that the Europeans would” be able to reconsider the decision to stop importing oil from Iran, he stated.
However, Soudani said that studying the double emergency bill on cutting oil to Europe is still on the parliament’s agenda.
“Iran’s Majlis is seriously and expertly studying the plan calling for a halt to oil exports to the European Union, and representatives are completely ready to approve the plan,” he added.
The MP also said that it was the Europeans that created tension.
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| Last Updated on 04 February 2012 21:00 |