Iranian oil minister Bijan Zanganeh will not attend Sunday’s high profile gathering of OPEC and major non-OPEC producers in Doha, given that Iran has no intention of participating in any production freeze agreement, the country’s oil ministry said Friday. “Considering Iran’s plan to revive its share of the global crude oil market after full annulment of unfair sanctions and the fact that this issue has been discussed in bilateral and multilateral meetings with oil and energy ministers of OPEC and non-OPEC producers… the Iranian oil minister will not take part in this meeting,” said Akbar Nematollahi, director general for the oil ministry’s public relations bureau, according to oil ministry news service Shana. However, he said Iran “supports any effort by OPEC and non-OPEC countries to bring back stability to the oil market and global oil prices.” Iran’s delegation to Doha will instead be headed by its OPEC governor Hosein […]