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Source: https://www.afp.com/en/news/826/iran-minister-blasts-trump-over-oil-and-gas-contracts-doc-yq8ik1
Iran Says Trump's Hostility to Nuclear Deal Scares Off Investors
(AFP) Iran's oil minister, Bijan Namdar Zanganeh, lashed out at the U.S. on Sunday, saying that hostile comments by President Donald Trump had torpedoed new oil and gas contracts for the Islamic republic. Zanganeh revealed that Tehran was currently negotiating with "more than 20 foreign companies" to develop its oil and gas fields, but Trump's regular denunciations of the nuclear deal with Iran has cooled their interest. "I dare not name the projects that are near to being agreed. If I do so, from tomorrow there will be pressure for them not to sign contracts with us," he said.