On Thursday, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani talked up Iran’s increasing self-sufficiency in fuel production. The comments came during the opening of the second phase of the Persian Gulf Star Refinery and Bandar Abbas.
Since the P5+1 nuclear deal allowed Iran to access much of its assets frozen internationally, they’ve been investing in improved infrastructure. Self-reliance on gasoline processing in particular is a priority. Rouhani noted that, if use was strictly limited, Iran could be self-sufficient right now. When the new refinery is fully up and running in the future, Iran will be totally self-sufficient.
Not only that, Iran may also be able to start exporting refined petrochemicals. While exporting crude oil is a vital part of Iran’s economy, a step up to refined petrochemicals would be a major money-maker for the nation, and further shield them from US sanctions attempts.
Efforts to become energy self-sufficient also continue on the nuclear energy side. Iran has restarted production at its uranium processing facility, which converts uranium ore into uranium hexaflouride gas. This gas is what is used in centrifuges to produce low-enriched fuel for Iran’s nuclear power plant at Bandar Bushehr. Though the P5+1 deal obliges Iran to keep its enrichment restricted to well-below full self-sufficiency, it does allow them to remain at least involved in the full process from mining uranium out of the ground to generating electricity with it.
War-threats on Iran still to go on? And if Iran does not acquire whatever it is it needs to become self-sufficient in also hitting US with nukes, US and/or US-Israel will keep on threatening Iran or one day even bomb it.
Of course, i do not trust more than one priest, but Iranians elect priests [mullahs] to office and i have to respect the will of the people.
Iran’s oil being use for and by Iranians…what a novel concept…If it were me in charge. I’d cut ALL ya’ll mofo’s off. Walk to work, see if I care. Finite resource is finite. Ya’ll can’t appreciate that, then do without it.
Bunch of ingrates…
Iran needs to work on getting nukes, pronto, if it does not want to be bombed.