An aide to Iran’s foreign minister and the director general of the ministry’s Persian Gulf Department has lodged an official protest with the Kuwaiti ambassador to Tehran over the Arab country’s recent controversial statements and unilateral claims.

Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Nasser Kanaani has reiterated the country’s position regarding the need for peaceful settlement of a dispute about a gas field with neighboring Kuwait.

The Iran Project - Iran has rejected claims made by the Persian Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) regarding the joint ownership of the Arash or Al-Dorra oil and gas field by Saudi Arabia and Kuwait. The Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson, Nasser Kanani, statedthat the resources and subsoil of the Persian Gulf should be utilized based on goodwill ...

The Iran Project - A senior aide to the Iranian foreign minister, has stated that Iran is not concerned about the dispute with Kuwait over the Arash gas field in the Persian Gulf. Ali Asghar Khaji made the remarks in an interview with Arabic-language al-Masirah TV on Sunday that Iran is not worried that the issue of Arash gas field, known in Kuwait ...

Iran's Oil Minister Javad Owji says the country will not stand idle in the face of any move by Kuwait or Saudi Arabia on a disputed gas field in the Persian Gulf that could lead to a loss of rights for Tehran. Owji made the remarks on Sunday, a day after Kuwait said the Arab country will start drilling at Durra field, known in Iran as Arash, without ...

Iran is pushing for the joint exploitation of the Arash gas field that is shared with its southwestern neighbors, Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Nasser Kanaani said. In comments at a presser on Monday, Kanaani underscored Irans demand for the joint exploitation of the Arash gas field. He said Iran has expressed its readiness for talks with Kuwait ...

Iran says it always observes the principles of good neighborliness and mutual interests in exploiting shared hydrocarbon reservoirs,as the controversy surrounding the Arash joint oil and gas field with Saudi Arabia and Kuwait erupted anew. Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kanani on Tuesday reacted to the latest claims by Saudi Arabia and ...

The recent decision by Kuwait and Saudi Arabia to develop the Durra offshore gas field which Iran calls Arash has revived a longstanding dispute on how to share the resources of the reservoir in the Persian Gulf. The natural gas field is located on the maritime borders of Iran and Kuwait, but with the recent agreement, the Saudis are grantingthe ...

The Iranian Minister of Oil announced the start of drilling for the Arash joint field in the near future. Arash gas field is one of the gas fields in Iran, which is located in the north of the Persian Gulf and in the province of Hormozgan in the south of Iran. Arash gas field is one of the common fields of Iran with Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, which ...

Irans Petroleum Ministry has undertaken necessary studies on developing and drilling in Arash joint gas field with Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, an Iranian official announced. The Iranian Ministry has also prepared the ground for development of Arash or Durra gas field, Ahmad Assadzadeh, deputy petroleum minister for international and commercial affairs ...

Kuwaits official news agency, KUNA, reported on July 27, 2016 that Saudi Arabia and Kuwait have filed a lawsuit with the United Nations against Iran in which they have accused the Islamic Republic of marine transgressions against the two countries marine zones. The complaint has been sent to the office of the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Tuesday,...

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Kuwait has summoned Irans charge daffaires over Tehrans alleged plans to tender development of an offshore gas field in the Persian Gulf, media reports say. Kuwaits Foreign Ministry summoned Hassan Zarnegar-Abarquee to submit a protest letter after allegations that Iran had put the Arash field among a number of oil and gas projects up for development ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- A senior Iranian lawmaker strongly rejected Saudi Arabia's recent claim on Iran and Kuwait's shared offshore gas field in the Persian Gulf known as Arash. "Arash is a joint gas field between Iran and Kuwait, and Saudi Arabia seems to be fishing in troubled waters under the present conditions and Riyadh cannot prove its allegations,...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) An Iranian oil official dismissed as groundless the remarks made by a Saudi official that Iran has no share in the offshore Arash gas field in the Persian Gulf. Such claim is not true and whoever has proposed such an issue has made groundless remarks, Mohammad Baqer Soleimani, director of production affairs at Iranian Offshore ...