Iran is open to international partnerships in the oil and gas industry, offering “golden investment opportunities” in the area, oil minister Mohsen Paknejad said this week, during a meeting with a senior Belarusian official. Paknejad added that Tehran had already built a portfolio of contracts with what Mehr News cited him as describing as “friendly nations”, at his meeting with Belarusian energy minister Andrei Kuznetsov. The statement follows a higher-level meeting between the presidents of Iran and Belarus, where they…