Yildiz said Iran raised the price at the end of 2010 so that Turkey now pays Iran more than it pays Russia for gas piped into the country. But Yildiz wasn’t picking any fight with Iran. He seemed to accept that there were different ways to interpret the decade-old contract between the two countries. “I can’t say they’re ill-intentioned,” Yildiz said. “Therefore, our relations aren’t affected. I believe they have good intentions, and they believe the same of us.”