TEHRAN (FNA)- A prominent Iranian lawmaker voiced his satisfaction with the volume of Irans daily crude export, and said that the countrys oil export has exceeded 1.2mln barrels per day.Speaking to FNA, member of the parliaments Planning and Budget Commission Hossein Ali Haji Delijani pointed to Iranian Oil Minister Bijan Namdar Zanganehs recent report to the commission, and said, According to Mr. Zanganehs report we should export 1.3 million barrels oil and gas condensates per day. At present, we have reached the (export) ceiling of 1.209mln barrels per day and earned an income of $23bln in the last six months, which is relatively good.
Earlier this year, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said that Iran exported 66 percent more crude oil in May than in April, with China increasing its purchases from Iran.
Imports of Iranian crude reported by consumers rose to the "relatively high" level of 1.39 million barrels a day from 835,000 barrels a day in April, the IEA said in its monthly oil report in June.
On May 31, former Iranian Oil Minister Rostam Qassemi announced at an OPEC conference that the US-engineered sanctions had not impacted the Islamic Republic's crude oil production.
Washington and its Western allies accuse Iran of trying to develop nuclear weapons under the cover of a civilian nuclear program, while they have never presented any corroborative evidence to substantiate their allegations. Iran denies the charges and insists that its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes only.
Tehran stresses that the country has always pursued a civilian path to provide power to the growing number of Iranian population, whose fossil fuel would eventually run dry.
Despite the rules enshrined in the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) entitling every member state, including Iran, to the right of uranium enrichment, Tehran is now under four rounds of UN Security Council sanctions for turning down West's calls to give up its right of uranium enrichment.
Tehran has dismissed West's demands as politically tainted and illogical, stressing that sanctions and pressures merely consolidate Iranians' national resolve to continue the path.
By Fars News Agency
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