TEHRAN, Aug. 9 - An Iranian oil official said Sunday that any sanctions on Iran's fuel demand would not affect Iran, the official IRNA news agency reported.
"Iran is by no means concerned about providing its fuel ... Any sanctions on Iran's fuel demand would affect its suppliers not the country," the official of National Iranian Oil Company, Hojjatollah Ghanimifard, was quoted as saying.
Imposing fuel sanctions against Iran has not been practical from the very beginning, said Ghanimifard.
On Saturday, Iran's OPEC Governor Mohammad Ali Khataibi said that Iran is a very important market for foreign suppliers to ban gasoline exports and "global oil commodity producers would not lose the Iranian market easily," the satellite Press TV reported.
Earlier in May, Iran's Oil Minister Gholam Hossein Nozari said that it was impossible to impose gasoline sanctions on Iran.
"For the time being, there are different sources to provide gasoline for the country and it is impossible to put sanctions on Iran," Nozari was quoted as saying by local Mehr news agency.
In the fresh attempts, the Obama administration is considering the option of cutting off Tehran's supplies of gasoline and other refined oil products if it refuses to negotiate on its nuclear program.
Washington has been trying to beef up its sanctions against Tehran for being involved in anti-U.S. activities and allegedly developing nuclear weapons secretly.
Iran has denied the charges and insisted that its nuclear program is for generating electricity only. The UN Security Council has imposed three sanctions on Iran for its ongoing uranium enrichment program.
"Iran is by no means concerned about providing its fuel ... Any sanctions on Iran's fuel demand would affect its suppliers not the country," the official of National Iranian Oil Company, Hojjatollah Ghanimifard, was quoted as saying.
Imposing fuel sanctions against Iran has not been practical from the very beginning, said Ghanimifard.
On Saturday, Iran's OPEC Governor Mohammad Ali Khataibi said that Iran is a very important market for foreign suppliers to ban gasoline exports and "global oil commodity producers would not lose the Iranian market easily," the satellite Press TV reported.
Earlier in May, Iran's Oil Minister Gholam Hossein Nozari said that it was impossible to impose gasoline sanctions on Iran.
"For the time being, there are different sources to provide gasoline for the country and it is impossible to put sanctions on Iran," Nozari was quoted as saying by local Mehr news agency.
In the fresh attempts, the Obama administration is considering the option of cutting off Tehran's supplies of gasoline and other refined oil products if it refuses to negotiate on its nuclear program.
Washington has been trying to beef up its sanctions against Tehran for being involved in anti-U.S. activities and allegedly developing nuclear weapons secretly.
Iran has denied the charges and insisted that its nuclear program is for generating electricity only. The UN Security Council has imposed three sanctions on Iran for its ongoing uranium enrichment program.
