Pamir also reminded a court case in New York for Reza Zarrab, a Turkish-Iranian businessman, and Mehmet Hakan Atilla, deputy chief executive of Turkish lender Halkbank, who are being held in the United States on charges of violating sanctions against Iran.
Elaborating on alternative trade mechanisms with Iran to avoid U.S. sanctions, the expert said a new scheme would deteriorate already shaken U.S.-Turkey relations.
Pamir stated that Turkey has already been following a "pragmatic" strategy in line with the U.S. sanctions for its purchase of Iranian oil in the past one year since Washington launched sanctions against Iran, and significantly diminished its import of Iranian oil.
The Turkish government rejects U.S. sanctions in rhetoric for domestic political reasons and for keeping political ties with Tehran, but in fact reduces Iranian crude oil import, he said.
Turkey's biggest oil importer Tupras has cut back purchases of Iranian crude since last May, even before Washington said it would re-impose sanctions on Tehran, the expert said, noting its imports fell to zero in November.
Turkey used to import about 200,000 barrels per day of Iranian crude before the United States announced in 2018 that it would pull out of the Iran nuclear deal. Reducing oil imports from Iran, Turkey turned to Iraqi crude as a substitute, Pamir said.
As of January 2019, Iran was Turkey's third-largest source of oil imports with 12.3 percent of the total, following Iraq and Russia.
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