Javad Oji, Minister of Oil of the government of Ebrahim Raisi, announced a daily shortage of 200 million cubic meters of gas in Iran. However, the regime’s news agencies have also said that there is a definite possibility of gas shortage in winter of 2022.
In this regard, Mustafa Nakhaei, spokesman for the Energy Commission in the Islamic regime’s parliament, said in an interview with IRNA that in order to prevent the crisis ahead, the need to resume gas imports from Turkmenistan. It should be noted that Turkmenistan has suspended gas exports to Iran since the beginning of 2017 due to Iran’s delayed debt payment of $2 billion, and also convicted the Islamic regime of Iran to pay off the debt.
With the shortage of gas and Iran’s debt to Turkmenistan, in March 2020, the CEO of the National Gas Company, Hassan Montazer Torbati, in an interview with IRNA economic reporter, pointed out that although as Iranian gas imports to Turkey and Iraq as the main partners continue, It is said that exports to the Republic of Azerbaijan and Armenia also remain intact. Expressing the daily export of gas to 75 million cubic meters, he announced: in 2013, about 9 million cubic meters of gas was produced from Iran, which reached to 18 cubic meters this year, which indicates a 100% growth in this area.
Iran ranks second in the world’s natural gas reserves and third in gas production, but due to Khamenei’s government mismanagement that pervades the Ministry of Oil and the regime as a whole, the country’s facing problems in producing and distributing gas.
