Iran is having problems selling its oil, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Tuesday, September 4, in the latest high-level confession that Western economic sanctions are taking their toll on the Iranian economy, Agence France Presse reported. “There are some problems in selling oil and we are trying to manage it,” Ahmadinejad said on state television. His admission capped a recent change in tone from Iran’s top leaders, who for months had denied the sanctions were having an effect. The International Energy Agency in its most recent report said Iran was exporting one million barrels per day, less than half the amount Tehran said it had been exporting at the beginning of the year. But the Iranian president said he was confident Iran would weather the sanctions. “We have oil and the world needs it,” Ahmadinejad said.