VOL. XLIV

No 30

23-July-2001

IRAN

Iran Begins Buybacks Probes

The Iranian judiciary has begun to investigateallegations of corruption in the allocation of buyback contracts to internationaloil companies, focusing on the Petropars offshoot of the National Iranian OilCompany (NIOC), which is involved in development of the giant South Parsgasfield. At the same time the Majlis (parliament) has begun once again todebate the validity of buybacks, threatening (as it succeeded in doing lastyear) to...