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November 8-12, 1999 / Aban 17-21, 1378
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* Iran says 1.2 mln cattle smuggled out each year
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* Iraq and Iran sign oil-for-food trade deals-INA
* Norway to send business delegation to Iran
* Iran eyes Thai gas fields
* FOCUS-Huge Iran oilfield to be open to foreigners
* Iran urged to ease stiff energy investment rules
* Iran plans to start exporting gas as well as oil
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Friday,
November 12, 1999
* Rafsanjani says rows stifle investment in Iran
TEHRAN, Nov 12 (Reuters) - Former Iranian President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
said on Friday that bitter political feuds between reformists and conservatives
were scaring away potential investors. ``The atmosphere is not suitable
for investments if we attend to our factional issues instead of dealing
with the country's problems and if officials spend all their time fighting
each other,'' Rafsanjani said in a sermon to thousands of worshippers at
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* Iran says 1.2 mln cattle smuggled out each year
TEHRAN, Nov 12 (Reuters) - More than 1.2 million cattle are smuggled
each year from Iran, a major food importer, to neighbouring countries by
traffickers seeking hard currency, an Iranian official said on Friday.
Ahmad Seyfkaran, a senior official at the Construction Jihad Ministry,
said the cattle smugglers earned $100 million a year, Iran's news agency
IRNA reported ... FULL
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Thursday
November 11, 1999
* Iran gets Airbuses cheaply, needs more
LONDON, Nov 11 (Reuters) - Iran Air appears to have got a surprisingly
good deal for the four A330 airliners it says it has bought from Airbus
Industrie and seems highly likely to buy more aircraft from the European
consortium ... FULL
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* Khatami defends economic plan
TEHRAN, Nov 11 (AFP) - Iran's reformist President Mohammad Khatami defended
his five-year economic plan Thursday, while admitting the right of the
conservative-dominated parliament to have its say. But he insisted that
his plan, whose broad lines were approved by parliament Wednesday but with
proposed new articles and amendments, best met the needs of Iran ... FULL TEXT
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* Iraq and Iran sign oil-for-food trade deals-INA
BAGHDAD, Nov 11 (Reuters) - Iraq and Iran signed on Thursday three contracts
to boost bilateral trade under Iraq's oil-for- food deal with the United
Nations, the Iraqi News Agency INA reported ... FULL
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Wednesday
November 10, 1999
* Norway to send business delegation to Iran
OSLO, Nov 10 (AFP) - A Norwegian government-led delegation will visit
Iran on November 19 to explore business opportunities there, Norwegian
press agency NTB reported Wednesday ... FULL
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* Iran eyes Thai gas fields
BANGKOK, Nov 10 (Reuters) - Thailand said Wednesday that Iran was considering
a significant investment in its offshore gas fields ... FULL
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Tuesday
November 9, 1999
* FOCUS-Huge Iran oilfield to be open to foreigners
TEHRAN, Nov 8 (Reuters) - A top Iranian official said on Monday foreign
oil companies would be given the opportunity to participate in the development
of a recently-discovered giant oilfield in Iran's southwest ... FULL
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* Iran urged to ease stiff energy investment rules
TEHRAN, Nov 8 (Reuters) - Iran risks losing out in a regional race for
billions of dollars in foreign capital unless it eases stifling restrictions
on investment in its vast energy industry, Western executives said on Monday
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Monday
November 8, 1999
* Iran plans to start exporting gas as well as oil
TEHRAN, Nov 8 (AFP) - Iran plans to start capitalising on its vast reserves
of natural gas, the largest in the world outside Russia, building pipelines
to Turkey and even India. The known reserves total some 24,000 billion
cubic meters (840,000 billion cubic feet), and exporting them will go far
to ease the problems of the Iranian economy, which is over-dependent on
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