Ahmadinejad stresses need to complete oil industry nationalization

Iranians’ present mission "is to complete the last chains of the ring of oil industry’s nationalization", President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Tuesday, IRNA reported.

"Despite passing over 60 years from the nationalization of Iran’s oil industry, a large part of the country’s oil income is still poured into the foreigners’ pockets," said the President.

He made the remarks in a ceremony held here to farewell former caretaker of Oil Ministry Mohammad Aliabadi and introduce his successor Rostam Qasemi.

The President referred to oil as a huge national resource which belongs to "all generations."

"After over 60 years from the nationalization of Iran’s oil industry, only one-third of the country’s oil income is allocated to the Iranian nation while the remaining
two-thirds are poured into the pockets of those who had looted the country’s oil resources in the past," Ahmadinejad regretted.

Last week, the Iranian parliament voted for the candidature of IRGC Gen. Rostam Gasemi as an oil minister. Brigadier General is the head of the "Khatam Ol -Anbiya" base, construction unit of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, which currently implements most of Iran 's oil and gas projects.

On Monday, newly elected minister said Khatam al-Anbiya headquarters should replace major foreign firms.


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