Iran's energy sector review

Iran's positive trade balance has reached $20 billion during the last five months, despite huge reduction in both export and import volumes. Iranian legislator Hossein-Ali Hajideligani who serves as a member of Planning and Budget Commission of Parliament quoted Iranian Oil Minister Bijan Zanganeh as saying that Iran's current crude oil and condensate export stand at 1.209 million barrels per day. Hajideligani told Fars News Agency on September 25 that Iran's oil and condensate exports reached $23 billion during fist six months of current Iranian solar year, which began on March 20. Iran exported about averagely $3.83 billion worth of oil and condensates per month (19.16 billion per 5 months). Iran also exported about 9 billion cubic meters (bcm) of gas to Turkey with $4.5 billion worth and imports around 4.5 bcm gas from Turkmenistan with $2.3 billion worth in 2012, while the gas import/export figures remained unchanged during current year. Then Iran's net revenue f...

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani repeated "hope", "peace" and "humanitarian" words 15, 14 and 10 times respectively during his speech at United Nations General Assembly meeting, the most repeated words among his 2348-word speech. He also mentioned 11 times the word "war" in order to emphasizing the necessity of avoiding hostility. Despite his predecessor Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's offensive position, a person who had spoke 8 times during his 8-year presidency at UNGA and each time his rhetoric statements have raised opposite views against Iran and damaged the country's image before international community more and more, Rohani's speech was massively welcomed by all nations, except Israel. Rouhani also quoted a couplet written by Iranian great ancient epic poet Hakim Abul-Qasim Ferdowsi (940 - 1020 CE) as saying "Strive in causing Goodness, Bring the spring, whenever you see coldness". Iranian moderate president didn't have a ...