Neither Saudi Arabia, nor other producers can replace Iranian oil: Zangeneh
Tehran (KNA) - Iran's Minister of Petroleum Bijan Zangeneh dismisses the rhetoric by the Saudi crown prince about Riyadh's capability to replace sanctions-hit Iranian oil, saying that the global market will never believe such claims.
"It seems that such remarks [by Saudi crown prince] have been made under [US President Donald] Trump's pressure," Zangeneh said on Monday.
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman told Bloomberg in an interview on Friday that his country had met its promise to the United States to make up for Iranian oil supplies lost through US sanctions re-imposed after Washington's withdrawal from a 2015 nuclear deal between Tehran and the P5+1 group of countries.
"Actually the request that America made to Saudi Arabia and other OPEC countries is to be sure that if there is any loss of supply from Iran, that we will supply that. And that happened. Because recently, Iran reduced their exports by 700,000 barrels a day, if I'm not mistaken. And Saudi Arabia and OPEC and non-OPEC countries, they've produced 1.5 million barrels a day. So we export as much as 2 barrels for any barrel that disappeared from Iran recently," he said.
Source: PressTV