Iran’s Oil Minister Bijan Namdar Zanganeh said his country has taken “many measures” to ensure it can raise crude production in “a very short time” if U.S. sanctions are lifted, the state-run Shana news agency reported. World powers have worked for months trying to broker an agreement between Iran and the U.S. that would restore Washington’s membership of the 2015 nuclear accord abandoned by former President Donald Trump in 2018. A revived deal would ease sanctions, triggering the return of Iranian barrels to the market. No date has been set for what would be a seventh round of talks. Despite the “extraordinary challenges” faced by the Iranian economy, the country can “easily” increase crude production to 6 million barrels a day, Zanganeh said, without detailing the preparations it has made or giving a […]