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By bne Tehran bureau Iran’s Oil Minister Javad Owji denied claims that the Islamic Republic was “giving away” crude oil to its customers with “massive discounts,” after two presidential candidates criticised the outgoing government for “wasting” oil revenues with markdowns, the state news agency IRNA reported on June 23. Owji told a press conference in Tehran that the discounts on Iran’s oil sales under the current government had been ‘way less’ than its predecessor in the Rouhani administration. In November, Iran had knocked $13 off the price of each barrel of oil exported to its main client,…

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