Energy Policy

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif called on his Japanese counterpart to increase efforts to remove unilateral sanctions imposed on the Islamic Republic by the US administration.

The Aide to the Russian President Yuri Ushakov in a phone conversation with Iran's Ambassador to Russia Kazem Jalali emphasized Moscow's strong opposition to US sanctions against Iran, especially amid coronavirus outbreak.

OPEC Secretary General Mohammad Barkindo held telephone talks with the Texas Railroad Commission late on Friday, March 20, a source in the secretariat told TASS, adding that the sides agreed to continue consultations. Later the commissioner Ryan Sitton confirmed the information via Twitter. “A telephone conference with US colleagues just …

Iraq’s oil minister has urged for an emergency meeting between OPEC and non-OPEC members to be called to discuss immediate action to help balance the oil market, according to a letter he sent to OPEC on March 17. In the letter seen by Reuters, Thamer al-Ghadhban asked OPEC Secretary-General Mohammad …

The Russian Foreign Ministry called on the US to lift its anti-human sanctions against Iran amid the outbreak of the novel coronavirus in the country, saying that the measures act as a powerful obstacle to Tehran's effective fight against the infection.

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif highlighted the US sanctions’ negative impact on the Islamic Republic’s efforts to combat the new coronavirus outbreak and said the European Union should not abide by the illegal embargoes.

Iranian Minister of Foreign affairs Mohammad Javad Zarif urged UK not to observe US anti-Iran sanctions based on its JCPOA commitments.

Attempts by some OPEC members to mediate between the cartel’s leader, Saudi Arabia, and Russia have failed and this Wednesday’s meeting of an OPEC+ technical committee has been scrapped amid the “full on war” between the friends turned foes, sources told Reuters on Monday. The meeting of the Joint Technical …

The Coronavirus economic stimulus packages being drawn up by governments around the world should build-in “large scale” spending on clean energy technologies including wind, solar, green hydrogen and carbon capture and storage (CCS), says Fatih Birol, executive director of the International Energy Agency (IEA). Investment in renewables, said Birol, in …

Iran, Japan and the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) have agreed to further cooperate on fishery in Iran.