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Iranian MP slams Turkey for 'buying oil from IS'

Business Materials 20 October 2014 15:47 (UTC +04:00)

Tehran, Iran, Oct. 20

By Milad Fashtami - Trend:

Member of National Security and Foreign Policy Committee of Iranian parliament (Majlis), Ebrahim Aqamohammadi said that Turkey is buying Iraqi oil from the IS group at one third of the real price.

Aqamohammadi added that Turkey's move can negatively affect its relations with oil-producing countries, Iran's ISNA News Agency reported on October 20.

"Turkey is taking advantage of the situation in Iraq. But Ankara should know that this can harm the country's main interests in the region," he said.

"Iran has supported Ankara in different situations, but if we reach conclude that our help is harming our own national interests, we'll definitely revise our policy," Aqamohammadi noted.

US Secretary of State John Kerry said last week that the terrorist Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) financially supports itself by selling oil via either Turkey or Lebanon.

The U.S. announced several months ago that ISIL's revenues from selling crude oil is $1 million per day, while several media have claimed that ISIL was selling crude oil to Syria and Turkey governments.

Turkey have rejected taking any oil from ISIL.

The terrorist organization known as the 'Islamic State' (IS, formerly ISIL or ISIS) was created in 2003 in Iraq. Between 2004 and 2006, the organization was led by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, and consisted of 11 radical Islamist groups, which had close ties to the terrorist organization Al-Qaeda.

Following the start of military confrontation in Syria in 2013 between the armed opposition and the government forces, the IS penetrated the country. The organization said at the time it refuses to take the oath of Al-Qaeda and declared 'a holy war' against all groups in Iraq and Syria, as well as the Syrian government forces.

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