	iran soviets to hold talks on oil exchange deal iran and the soviet union have provisionally agreed to hold talks on a possible exchange of iranian  oil for finished soviet oil products an official spokesman said tuesday gennady gerasimov chief of the soviet foreign ministry s information directorate told reporters the agreement had been reached during a visit to moscow last week by iran s oil minister gholamreza aqazadeh gerasimov said no date had been set for the talks which would also study the possibility of soviet technical assistance for iran s oil industry reuter 
