Epress.am News from Armenia
Ankara will continue to permit Turkish companies to sell gasoline to Iran, despite US sanctions against fuel exports to the Islamic regime, Reuters reported on Wednesday, according to The Jerusalem Post.
“If the preference of the private sector is to sell these products to Iran, we will help them,” said Turkish Energy Minister Taner Yildiz.
Tupras, Turkey’s sole oil refiner and gasoline exporter, expressed little fear of retribution from US Treasury officials who have the power to ban sanctions violators from accessing the US banking system or receiving US contracts.
“For us, Iran is more important than America because we get crude oil from them. We don’t get anything from America,” a Tupras official was quoted as saying.