By IANS,
Tehran: The Iranian oil ministry has played down the recent threat by the European Union (EU) to ban Iran’s natural gas exports, Xinhua reported.
The EU threat is a “propaganda campaign,” Fars news agency quoted oil ministry spokesperson Alireza Nikzad-Rahbar as saying.
He was responding to EU diplomats’ recent remarks that the latter was mulling a ban on Iran’s gas export into Europe to put pressure on the Islamic republic over its controversial nuclear programme.
“Right now, no EU member imports Iranian gas,” Nikzad-Rahbar said.
“The new EU threat is just a propaganda maneuvering and will never take place since they (the EU members) can never make themselves politically dependent on the other countries,” he added.
Iran is now exporting gas to Turkey and has swap deals with Armenia and Azerbaijan, the report said.