Middle East Economic Survey

VOL. LIV

No 23

6-Jun-2011

IRAN

Majlis Commission Says Abadan Refinery Blast Not Sabotage

The spokesman for Irans parliamentary National Security and Foreign Policy Commission Kazem Jalali, announced on 29 May that a detailed inquiry carried out by the commission into the circumstances of the previous weeks Abadan refinery blast has ruled out any possibility that the incident involved an act of sabotage. Mr Jalali noted, though, that the Majlis was conducting an...