Hussein Hajiloo stated that the US and some insiders were trying to damage the trade relations between Iran and China. Iran Chamber of Commerce published incorrect information about the Chinese buying Iranian oil, which seems to ...
Hussein Hajiloo stated that the US and some insiders were trying to damage the trade relations between Iran and China. Iran Chamber of Commerce published incorrect information about the Chinese buying Iranian oil, which seems to have been spread in order to challenge these relations.”
Radio Goftgoo “Without Scrawl” program had a phone call interview with Hossein Hajiloo, the Iranian international affairs expert discussing the US pressure on China to reduce oil purchases from Iran.
Hossein Hajiloo referred to the interactions between Iran and China in the past few years and spoke about the pressures caused by the US sanctions; “Since 2011, the US and Europe oil sanctions have been formed against Iran. At the time, international statistics, including those from the World Energy Organization, showed that Iran exported 1.2 to 1.8 million oil barrels per day, more than 90 percent of which exported to China.”
He mentioned that the Chinese bought oil from our country at the peaks of the US pressures on Iran; “In 2018, when the United States withdrew from the JCPOA and the Europeans stopped buying oil from Iran, the Chinese bought our oil without setting any preconditions for economic interactions with our country.”
Pointing to Iran's accession to the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, the international affairs expert said; “Afterwards, Iran's interactions with Russia and China, and with the East in general, are improving, and this is due to a change of our government’s approach. Under the current circumstances, we can see the United States and its media propagandizing against Iran and China.”
He then spoke of the measures taken by some inside our country to disrupt Iran-China relationship and circumvent the sanctions, and explained; “Over the past few days, the Chamber of Commerce published some information regarding Iran-China trade relations, which have no basis.”
“The measures taken over the past few days were aimed at creating a challenge between Iran and China. This misinformation is significant since the Chinese government couldn’t officially announce that this country would buy one million barrels of oil from Iran,” he added.
Hajiloo clarified that the issue of Iran oil sales to China is not recorded in either Iran's or China's custom information; “China wants this interaction to be hidden from the Americans which is logical, and disclosing such economic information in this economic war, will be costly for both side.”
By Zahra Judaki
