Tehran, March 25 -- Iran on Monday rejected media reports that the Iranian oil tankers seized by the U.S. forces in the Persian Gulf used forged Iraqi documents.
The report, which quoted Iraqi oil minister Hayan Abdel-Ghani as saying that the Iranian oil tankers being detained by U.S. naval forces carried Iraqi shipping manifests, was untrue, Iran's Deputy Oil Minister for International and Commercial Affairs, Ali-Mohammad Mousavi, said.
Iran sold its oil in compliance with all regulations and criteria in oil trade interactions, the minister said in a recent interview with the Shana News Agency affiliated with the Iranian Oil Ministry.
The Iraqi oil minister's remarks had been reflected incompletely and he has made the claim quoting U...