UANI

"Iran signed a deal reportedly worth up to $1 billion with Russia's Tatneft on Sunday to develop an oil field, a rare example of new foreign investment into the oil and gas sector of a country under ever tighter economic sanctions... The president of the southern Russian republic of Tatarstan, the home of Tatneft, in Tehran for the signing, also visited Iran's giant South Pars gas field and said he hoped for further economic cooperation with Iran." (The Wall Street Jounal, "Russian company signs up to develop Iran oil field," 12/17/2011)