‘Iranian parliament drafts plan to cut oil exports to Europe’

TEHRAN , Jan. 29 (MNA) – The Iranian parliament has finished drawing up a draft plan calling for a halt to Iran’s oil exports to the European countries that voted for sanctions on Iran’s oil industry, Iranian MP Nasser Soudani announced. The Iranian MPs decided to work out the plan after the European Union formally imposed an oil embargo on Iran and agreed to a freeze on the assets of the Central Bank of Iran on January 23. “The plan has four articles, one of whose main points reads that the Islamic Republic of Iran will cut oil exports to these countries before the European countries stop” importing oil from Iran, Soudani, who is a member of the Majlis Energy Committee, told on Saturday. The plan may undergo a number of revisions, he added. Soudani also said that a number of MPs believe that Iran should impose an oil embargo on the European Union for five years. “In another article of the plan, the government has been obliged to halt the import of any kind of commodity from the countries which imposed sanctions on Iran,” he stated. “However, the national security and energy committees should announce their views on the plan,” he added.