Russia and Qatar gas; A new opportunity for Iran Mohammad Mojtabi Valdabadi, an energy expert at "Iran" wrote: Before the Ukraine war, Russia used energy as a tool for political influence on Europe, but with the start of the war and Western sanctions, it lost a large part of the European market. Russia's total gas exports increased from 241 billion cubic meters in 2021 to 142 billion cubic meters in 2023. Iran's geographic location and political relations with Moscow provided an opportunity to turn Iran into a regional gas hub. In the 1403 memos, the import of Russian gas with a daily capacity of 150 million cubic meters was mentioned in each memo. According to the proposal, the imported gas should be used mainly for re-export to Iraq, Turkey, Pakistan and Oman. Moving the negotiations from the level of the companies to making political decisions and determining the schedule, the scope and the financial mechanism is a condition for turning the goal of the gas center into an executive plan. Read the full text here.

Russia and Qatar gas; A new opportunity for Iran Mohammad Mojtabi Valdabadi, an energy expert at "Iran" wrote: Before the Ukraine war, Russia used energy as a tool for political influence on Europe, but with the start of the war and Western sanctions, it lost a large part of the European market. Russia's total gas exports increased from 241 billion cubic meters in 2021 to 142 billion cubic meters in 2023. Iran's geographic location and political relations with Moscow provided an opportunity to turn Iran into a regional gas hub. In the 1403 memos, the import of Russian gas with a daily capacity of 150 million cubic meters was mentioned in each memo. According to the proposal, the imported gas should be used mainly for re-export to Iraq, Turkey, Pakistan and Oman. Moving the negotiations from the level of the companies to making political decisions and determining the schedule, the scope and the financial mechanism is a condition for turning the goal of the gas center into an executive plan. Read the full text here.