An Iranian Petroleum Ministry officials has announced Iran's readiness to send twenty million barrels of crude oil to the United States to help Washington deal with the consequences of Hurricane Katrina in the city of New Orleans and two other southern US states.
According to a report by the US Dow Jones economic news agency, Iran's envoy to Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) Ali Kazempour has by phone proposed to US concerned officials that Iran can send urgently ten to twenty million barrels of crude oil to the United States, should the US sanctions against Iran permit.
According to the report, Kazempour added, "If the sanctions are lifted we can immediately send that quantity of oil to America." Dow Jones has not given any further details about Islamic Republic of Iran's help offer to US, put forth by Kazempour.(source)
Iranian Red Crescent Society alos has voiced readiness to provide relief assistance to the victims of Hurricane Katrina in the United States.
According to the Public Relations Office of the IRCS on Monday, the Society expressed its readiness in a letter submitted to the US Red Cross Society. (source)
Meanwhile, Baztab severely criticized Kazempour's offer. Baztab reports "the all governmental aids for Bam earthquake was about 1/5 of 20M Barrels. the petroleum Maffia of Iran - headed by the former petroleum minister of Iran Bijan Namdar Zanganeh - wants only to show its subservience to US.
Zanganeh, the former oil minister of Iran
Zanganeh's petroleum band previously had been denounced by president Ahmadinezhad due to its so-called big corruptions, during his presidential campaign.