Iranian oil minister to attend Saudi oil meeting

Tehran: Iran's Oil Minister Gholamhossein Nozari and the country's OPEC Governor Mohammad Ali Khatibi will attend a meeting of oil producers and consumers to discuss soaring prices in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, on June 22.

Nozari will head the Iranian delegation to the meeting, an Oil Ministry official, who declined to be named, said in a phone interview from Tehran.

Iran is the second-largest producer in the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries after Saudi Arabia.