Iran's Ghasemi warns of partial export halt

摘要

Tehran-Iran's oil minister Rostam Ghasemi said January 29 Iran would soon stop export- ing oil to some countries as his deputy warned that oil prices could rise to $150/b after an EU embargo on the import of Iranian crude oil comes into effect on July 1. "We export less than 20% of our oil to Europe and don't have any problem for the exports of this 20%," Ghasemi said in an interview with state television. "In fact, we have enough customers at the moment and we probably won't give oil to some [European] countries soon," he added.