TEHRAN, March 27 (Xinhua) -- Iranian Oil Minister Mohsen Paknejad has called for greater vigilance against seditious bids by the "enemies" of Iran and Iraq, the official IRNA news agency reported on Thursday.

He made the remarks in a phone call with his Iraqi counterpart, Hayan Abdel-Ghani, on Wednesday, pointing to the "friendly and brotherly" relations between Iran and Iraq, and stressing that the two countries should be vigilant against bids by their "enemies to incite sedition."

Paknejad added that Iran's oil sales proceeded within the framework of the "accepted criteria in interactions pertaining to oil trade."

The phone call occurred a few days after the Iranian side rejected as untrue reports that the Iranian oil tankers seized by the U.S. forces in the Gulf used forged Iraqi documents.

In February, the Iraqi side said it was not involved in purchasing, receiving, or re-exporting Iranian crude oil to help Iran "evade sanctions".

The United States has intensified unilateral sanctions on Iran's oil exports, as U.S. President Donald Trump took an executive action in early February to step up pressure on Iran, which was aimed at bringing the country's oil exports to zero and preventing it from what he claimed obtaining a nuclear weapon. Enditem

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