He mentioned total vitality export earnings, together with crude, rose by 2.5 instances however he solely gave a breakdown for gasoline and petrochemicals. Iran doesn’t launch figures associated to grease exports.
The rise in income was partly as a consequence of extra exports and since Iran managed to gather extra of the proceeds from exports regardless of U.S. sanctions, the minister mentioned.
“By means of numerous strategies, our authorities has collected all of the revenues from its exports of oil, gasoline, gasoline condensate and oil merchandise,” Owji mentioned.
Fuel export revenues rose to 4.6 billion USD from 1.27 billion USD final 12 months, and revenues from petrochemical merchandise exports doubled to 12 billion USD, the minister mentioned.