Iran's Oil Minister Bijan Zanganeh is on the wires now, via Tasnim news, noting that the country´s oil exports cannot be stopped by the US sanctions on Iran.
Zanganeh added that the sanctions on Iran will keep the oil markets volatile.
On Monday, Zanganeh said that Saudi Arabia and Russia’s crude output is now near the highest levels ever.
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