BAGHDAD (Dispatches) -- The spokesman of the Iraqi Ministry of Electricity says Baghdad is in talks with Tehran to increase its imports of gas from Iran.
Ahmed Musa said Iraq is currently importing 20 million cubic meters a day of gas from Iran, but it does not meet the needs of the country, leaving some power plants with limited load and leading to outages. “Negotiations, meetings and periodic visits with the Iranian side … in order to increase the import of gas and the grid load during the winter and boost the rate of electricity production are underway,” Iraq’s Mawazine News quoted Musa as saying.