Iran to issue sukuk securities to fund oil, gas projects
5/4/2020
Iran plans to issue sukuk securities worth up to $217 million to fund oil and natural gas projects, state-run energy news service SHANA reported.
Vice President Eshaq Jahangiri signed off on a decision, authorised under the annual state budget, which allows the oil, energy and industry ministries to issue the sukuk, which are Islamic sharia-compliant bonds, worth up to 35 trillion rials ($217 million at the free market exchange rate) for gas and oil projects, it said. (Reporting by Maher Chmaytelli and Dubai newsroom; Editing by Edmund Blair and James Drummond)
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