TEHRAN (Tasnim) � Iran�s Oil Minister Bijan Namdar Zanganeh blamed Saudi Arabia for discouraging customers from buying Iranian crude and luring them away by offering lower prices.





�Saudi Arabia is plotting against us in the marketing field,� Zanganeh said at a meeting with members of the incoming parliament in Tehran on Sunday.

Describing such ploys as �unusual in the marketing arena�, the minister said Riyadh offers lower prices to the customers looking for Iran�s oil.

Despite the fact, Iran has succeeded to double its oil exports, he stressed.

Reiterating Iran�s determination to regain its share of the oil market after coming into force of a lasting nuclear deal with world powers, Zanganeh said the country aims to �produce 4 million barrels per day of crude oil� without any consideration for any side.

He once again rejected a proposed oil freeze plan by the OPEC members, noting that Saudi Arabia�s �obstinacy� led to the failure of a recent meeting of oil-producers in Qatar�s Doha.

Iran is striving to maximize its oil output after the termination of the sanction under the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), a lasting nuclear deal between Tehran and the Group 5+1 (Russia, China, the US, Britain, France and Germany) that took effect in January.

Last week, President Hassan Rouhani said the country�s exports of oil and gas condensates have reached 2.3 million barrels per day (bpd), almost twice as much as before the JCPOA.

By Tasnim News Agency