One of the impacts of the international community’s sanctions is the investors’ withdrawal from capitalizing in the Iranian regime’s oil and gas industry. This has resulted in billions of dollars of losses. A website affiliated to Khamenei’s faction in the regime’s Majlis called ‘Parliament News’ published a report which speaks for itself.
Due to the 5 year downturn and lack of serious investment in the country’s shared southern oil and gas fields with other Gulf countries, these countries have used these shared sources much more than the regime.
According to a shocking report, Qatar’s usage of the joint gas field with Iran is 15 times greater than Iran’s take. The number differential adds up to $40 billion per year. Based on official statistics of the regime, all in all Iran’s neighboring countries’ usage of the  joint oil and gas fields are worth $100 billion dollars.
The website admitted: “The $40 billion that Qatar takes away is equivalent to the entire cash subsidies handed out. If Ahmadinejad’s cabinet had better managed this field, and could have been able to produce gas equivalent to the Qatari side, from this profit alone it could have doubled the fuel subsidy.”
In addition to the regime’s oil production from shared and separate fields, it has been a couple of years since they have been experiencing a decline instead of an increase.