Interest surrounding Iran’s delegation to Opec talks on 4 December reached fever pitch, following Tehran’s interim agreement to make its nuclear programme acceptable to leading world powers. November’s nuclear deal between Iran and the P5+1 — the US, China, Russia, France, the UK and Germany — has raised hopes that sanctions that have cut the country’s oil exports by more than half to 1.2mn b/d could be removed next year (WPA, 29 November, p1).
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