October 11, 2013
Shana, the news agency of the Oil Ministry, carried a story Monday saying Greece and Iran are “eyeing a surge in energy cooperation.” The two are doing nothing of the sort since EU sanctions bar any such thing. But Iranian news outlets love to carry stories about how Iran is discussing sales of oil to European countries or European investments in the Iranian oil sector, as if everyone is eager to break away from sanctions. PressTV this week quoted the heads of both Total and Royal Dutch-Shell as saying they were just waiting for sanctions to be lifted and they would return to Iran