Russia has announced that it has no plan to join sanctions imposed on Iranian oil exports by the European Union as the decision is politically motivated, Press TV reports.
"I heard yesterday that Russia was asked to join this embargo...Today, Russia is not taking even a single ton of Iranian oil and we don't have any plans to increase our import share of Iranian oil,” Russian Energy Minister Sergey Shmatko said on Wednesday.
Speaking on the sidelines of the World Petroleum Congress in Doha, Qatar, the Russian minister further stated that Moscow did not need to join the embargo saying - “we are not consuming Iranian oil at all.”
