TEHRAN - Iran’s representative to OPEC Hussein Kazempur-Ardabili is to be replaced by senior National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC) International Affairs official, Mohamed Ali Khatibi, an official at the Oil Ministry said here on Wednesday.

Having been Iran’s permanent representative to the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries for 25 years, Kazempur will be retired soon, Golf Times quoted the official as saying.
Khatibi served in OPEC department of NIOC for a number of years and before being appointed as deputy director for international affairs of NIOC two years ago, he was working as a senior analyst in International Institute for Energy Studies (IIES), a subsidiary of NIOC