Press TV - Tehran and Baghdad have signed an agreement on exports of electricity from Iran to neighboring Iraq, stressing their determination to broaden cooperation in the energy sector, despite American pressure on the Iraqi government to reduce economic ties with its neighbor. In an interview with the IRNA news agency on Wednesday, Irans Minister ...

Reuters - The United States will grant a 120-day waiver for Iraq to continue importing electricity from Iran to help the new Iraqi government succeed, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told the newly installed Iraqi prime minister. In support of the new government the United States will move forward with a 120-day electricity waiver as a display ...

Reuters - The United States has renewed a waiver for Iraq to import Iranian electricity imports, a State Department official said on Sunday, but this time for a shorter period of time, adding that Washington would be reassessing whether to renew again once a credible government is formed in Iraq. The Secretary granted this brief extension of the ...

Radio Farda - With just two days remaining to the expiration of a thirty-day U.S. waiver to import Iranian gas and electricity, the Iraqi Minister of Electricity says it will take three to four years for the country to stop importing energy from Iran. Luay al-Khatteeb, told S&P Global Platts that it would take several years for the country's ...

MNA Energy Minister Reza Ardakanian informed on Monday that Iran has extended its exports of electricity to Iraq by signing a three-year cooperation document with the country. The Iranian minister noted that Iran will continue its electricity exports to Iraq as long as the Arab country demands for it. He reminded that Iranian and Iraqi electricity ...

Reuters - Iraq imports 7 gigawatts (GW) of electricity from Iran to make up the shortfall between domestic power production and the countrys needs, a power ministry official said on Wednesday. Abbas Jabber, electricity ministry undersecretary, told a conference in Cairo that maybe in three years Iraq could achieve self-sufficiency but added that ...

IRNA Managing Director of Iran Grid Management Company, referring to good cooperation of the Iraqi government, said grounds will be prepared for increasing Iran's electricity exports to Iraq in the near future. Speaking at the ceremony held for synchronization operation of Iran-Iraq power grid, Davoud Farrokhzad said Iran-Iraq dispatching centers ...

MNA Secretary General of Iran-Iraq Joint Chamber of Commerce informed on Saturday that presently Iran supplies 40 percent of Iraqis need for electricity. Iran exports 1,200 megawatts to 1,500 megawatts of electricity to Iraq per day that is dealing with severe power shortages and frequent blackouts, Hamid Hosseini said. As he added, Iran also ...

MNA Managing Director of Gharb (West) Regional Electricity Company Ali Asadi said on Monday that Islamic Republic of Iran has high capacity and potential to export electricity up to twofold of the current capacity to neighboring Iraq. He pointed to the new strategy of Iran Power Generation, Transmission & Distribution Management Company (TAVANIR) ...

Tehran Times The value of Irans gas and electricity exports to Iraq are expected to reach $5 billion by the end of the current Iranian calendar year (March 21, 2020), Meh news agency quoted an official with the Iran-Iraq Joint Chamber of Commerce as saying. According to the Secretary General of Iran-Iraq Joint Chamber Seyed Hamid Hosseini, if Iraq ...

MNA Iraqi Minister of Electricity Louay Al Khateeb said that his country is optimistic about developing electricity cooperation with the Islamic Republic of Iran. He made the remarks late on Saturday during his meeting with Iranian Minister of Energy Reza Ardakanian and said, perspective of cooperation between Islamic Republic of Iran and Iraq ...

Iraq Oil Report - Another 90-day waiver allows for critical power purchases as Iraq tries to balance relations between rival powers. The U.S. government has given Iraq another 90-day waiver from Iran sanctions to enable energy imports that are critical for meeting domestic demand. A previous 90-day waiver, granted in December, was set to expire ...

The New York Times | Edward Wong: The Trump administration is pressuring Iraq to stop buying energy from its neighbor and sole foreign supplier, Iran, in what has become a major point of conflict between Washington and Baghdad. Iraqi leaders, fearing that a further shortfall in power would lead to mass protests and political instability in their ...

Press TV - Iran has signed an agreement to extend exports of 1,200 megawatts of electricity to neighboring Iraq. The deal was inked by Managing Director of Iran's state-run Organization for Management of Electric Power Generation and Transmission (Tavanir) Mohammad Hassan Motevalizadeh and the Iraqi deputy electricity minister in Tehran on Friday....

Financial Tribune - Iraqi officials, struggling to form a new government months after the May parliamentary elections, now have an even more pressing concern: persuading the Trump administration to waive sanctions that could deprive Iraq of 40% of its electricity. Due to go into effect on Nov. 4, the sanctions will exclude from the US market foreign ...

MNA Iranian government spokesman said Tue. Iran is not going to resume electricity supplies to Iraq in near future due to looming shortage of power inside the country. Mohammad Bagher Nobakht made the remarks in his weekly presser on Tuesday during which he said that Iran used to supply electricity to Iraq earlier this year but due to the shortages ...

MNA Iran has cut electricity supplies to Iraq due to unpaid bills, the Ministry of Electricity in Baghdad said on Friday. This has exacerbated the countrys electricity crisis, the Middle East Monitor quoted Anadolu as reporting on Saturday. The Iraqi Ministry of Electricity spokesman Mosaab Al-Madras said that the supply cut affected Iraqs Dhi ...

Financial Tribune - Iraq has been the biggest customer of Iran's electricity over the last four years. The western Arab neighbor imported 36.5 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity from Iran between March 2013 and December 2016, making it the biggest importer of electric power from Iran in that period, IRNA reported on Sunday. Turkey (6.3 billion ...

Iran has resumed electricity exports to Iraqs southern province of Basra following a hiatus over unpaid dues. According to Tasnim news agency quoting a local Iraqi media outlet, Baghdad Governor Majed al-Nasravi confirmed Irans resumption of power exports to Basra Province. The official said the electricity flow was cut a few weeks ago due ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Deputy Energy Minister Esmayeel Mahsouli announced that his ministry has extended an exports deal with Iraq to supply the neighboring country with 1000-1300 MW of electricity. Mahsouli said that the price of power exports to Iraq has not changed. "The price of power export is similar to the previous one with no change," the ...