Baku-APA. Iranian Oil Minister Rostam Qasemi said Sunday that his ministry will soon strike gas deals with different countries, APA reports quoting Xinhua.
"We are finalizing (agreements for) gas exports to different countries," Qasemi was quoted as saying without further elaboration.
Dismissing the negative impacts of the West's unilateral sanctions on Iran's energy sector, he said that "The world is big and we have our own buyers."
The United States and the European Union (EU) have imposed successive unilateral sanctions on Iran's oil and gas industry in the past years.
On Sunday, Qasemi said that the country's natural gas production will increase by more than twofold over the next three years, Press TV reported.