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Bernama melaporkan bahawa Laporan media asing yang memetik Datuk Seri Najib Razak sebagai berkata bahawa Malaysia telah menghentikan bekalan minyak ke Iran adalah tidak betul, kata perdana menteri.

Beliau berkata sebenarnya Petronas terlibat dalam penjualan lani (spot sale) kepada Iran pada pertengahan Mac melalui urus niaga pihak ketiga, tetapi selepas itu tidak ada lagi permintaan terhadap bahan tersebut.

“Tak betul, ia bukan keputusan Petronas sendiri. Ia melibatkan satu jualan lani dan tidak ada lagi keperluan selepas itu, jadi mereka dah tak buat (lagi),” katanya kepada wartawan Malaysia pada Jumaat.

“Ia suatu urus niaga pihak ketiga yang dibuat pada pertengahan Mac, bukan sekarang. Saya agak terperanjat apabila perkara ini telah menimbulkan keadaan yang begitu riuh-rendah,” kata Najib pada hari terakhir dalam rangka lawatan beliau selama seminggu ke Washington dan New York.

Beliau berkata urus niaga itu semata-mata bersifat komersial dan sekiranya terdapat lagi permintaan bagi penjualan lani, terserahlah kepada pihak yang terlibat untuk menguruskannya.

Laporan media mengaitkan penghentian jualan itu dengan tekanan antarabangsa terhadap Iran berkaitan program nuklearnya serta perkembangan yang berlaku menjelang berlangsungnya Sidang Kemuncak Keselamatan Nuklear di Washington minggu lepas yang turut memberi kesempatan kepada Najib untuk mengadakan rundingan dua hala buat julung kalinya dengan Presiden Barack Obama.

Sebelum ini, Najib telah menyatakan bahawa Iran berhak menggunakan tenaga nuklear bagi tujuan aman dan Malaysia tidak akan menyokong program pengeluaran senjata nuklear oleh negara itu.

Putrajaya goes on ‘damage-control mode’ over Iran fuel snub

KUALA LUMPUR, April 17 — The Najib administration today went on a “damage-control mode” for stopping fuel sales to Iran as the opposition Pakatan Rakyat picked up the issue in the Hulu Selangor by-election campaign.

Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak clarified from New York that the Iran sale was a one-off deal while national oil Petronas said it was done on “commercial conditions”.

In a two-paragraph statement, Petronas group corporate affairs division said it wanted to clarify reports on its gasoline supply to Iran.

“Petronas, through its subsidiary Petronas Trading Company (PETCO), sold spot volumes of gasoline from third-party traders and suppliers to customers in Iran. The last shipment of gasoline into Iran was made in mid-March this year. PETCO’s decisions in these sales were based purely on commercial considerations,” said the statement issued by Azman Ibrahim, from the group corporate affairs division.

Iran is facing sanctions from the United States over its nuclear programme and Najib reportedly said it had to earn the world’s trust by allowing international inspection.

Opposition Leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim called Najib a “hypocritical leader without principles”, saying the government criticised the US for its impotence to resolve the Palestinian-Israeli conflict while at the same time bowing to Washington’s pressure with the Iranian sanctions in the name of “improved bilateral ties”, which Anwar alleged was done merely to boost the PM’s image.

“When US President Barack Obama calls failed to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, I had criticised him. When Obama called for sanctions against Iran, I said fine, but what of Israel?” Anwar asked last night when bringing up the issue on the Hulu Selangor campaign trail.

Malays form slightly more than half of the 64,500 registered voters eligible to cast ballots in the April 25 by-election, and are generally against US pressure for an embargo on Iran and view the sanction call as a product of lobbying by the Israelis.

“But what did Najib do? He supported the US call for sanctions against Iran,” pounded Anwar to a roar of applause from the crowd of 200 Felda settlers in Hulu Selangor.

The PR and PKR de facto leader has already linked Najib’s public relations consultant APCO Worldwide to Israel and news of Petronas stopping fuel supplies to Iran adds another issue in PR’s Hulu Selangor election campaign against the ruling Barisan Nasional (BN).

But the prime minister said Petronas was involved in a spot sale to Iran in mid-March under a third-party deal but since then there had been no requests.

“It is not correct, it was not a decision taken by Petronas per se. It involved a spot sale and there was no requirement anymore, so they don’t do it (anymore),” he told Malaysian reporters yesterday.

“It is a third-party deal that was done in mid-March, not now. I was a bit surprised, a lot of noise has been made out of this thing,” said Najib, who is on the final day of his week-long visit to Washington and New York.

Najib said the transaction was purely commercial and if there were further requests for spot sales, it would be up to the parties involved.

News reports had linked the halt in sales to the international pressure on Iran over its nuclear programme and to the run-up to the Nuclear Security Summit held in Washington last week during which Najib had a bilateral meeting with Obama for the first time.

Ulasan GB

Apakah media asing yang membuat laporan mengenai kenyataan Najib itu semua bodoh belaka, dan hanya Bernama saja yang mebuat laporan yang betul terhadap kenyataan Najib, itu pun setelah dua hari ianya tersebar di seluruh dunia?

Dan sewaktu kali pertama berita itu tersebar, tiada sebarang penafian, hanya setelah ianya dilontarkan oleh masyarakat sempena PRK Hulu Selangor, Najib bersuara dari New York cuba menafikan kenyataannya yang terdahulu.

Satu dunia nak ditipunya. Satu hari Najib pasti terjerat juga. Tunggu dan lihat.