What Happened: Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi issued a decree appointing Mohammed Eslami the new head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, replacing veteran nuclear scientist Ali Akbar Salehi, the Tehran Times reported Aug. 29.
If fuel consumption rises, Tehran could become a gas importer. Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said this, Trend.az news agency reports, according to “ТАСС”.
“If fuel consumption continues to rise, we will become gasoline importers again in a year”, the presidents press service quoted him saying. According to Rouhani, “in order to preserve our ability to supply ourselves and to control our gasoline consumption, a plan was implemented to introduce quotas and to increase fuel prices”.
Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Aragqi and Chinese Foreign Minister Ma Zhaoxu have negotiated in Beijing. A key point in the negotiatons was the nuclear deal. According to Trend.az news agency, which on its turn relies on TASS, the Iranian news agency IRNA reported about the event.
One of the topics discussed, was the meeting of the Joint Committee on the nuclear deal at Deputy Ministers of Foreign Affairs level, which is scheduled for December 6, 2019.
