Last week, much of the news about the signing of a “strategic” memorandum to supply Russian pipeline gas to Iran was lost in political din as the election fever gripped the nation.
Iran’s energy minister says Tehran has proposed seven areas for strengthening energy cooperation among member states of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO).
The largest wind power plant, with the capacity of generating 50-megawatt electricity, was inaugurated east of Iran by Iran’s Minister of Energy Ali Akbar Mehrabian.
Renewable power plants with a total capacity of 13,000 megawatts are under construction in Iran, including a 780-megawatt plant being built in the southeastern Sistan and Baluchestan province, an official said.
The presidents of Iran and the Republic of Azerbaijan will on May 19 inaugurate a dam built jointly by the two neighbors on the Aras River at the common border.
Malaysia Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim said today that there was “not one shred of evidence” of ship-to-ship transfers of sanctioned Iranian oil off Malaysia.
