Iranian President Hassan Rouhani speaks following the deal on Tehran’s nuclear programme last month. (PA)
A push for privatisation in Iran’s oil and gas sector initiated by President Hassan Rouhani’s new cadre of technocratic oil men is being stalled by hardliners with a vested interest in maintaining the status quo.
The new administration wants to put parts of Iran’s upstream oil and gas projects and state institutions back into the “real private sector” and away from the quasi-state controlled private sector. The model is reminiscent of the post Iran-Iraq war period of reform under oil ministers Gholam Aghazadeh and Bijan Zangeneh....
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