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* Iran insists businessman in Japan arms expor blameless
* Israelis suspected of military equipment sales to Iran
* Iranian official slams Caspian oil pipeline
* Oil swap plan not aimed to force OPEC output-US
* World Bank making tentative moves to lend to Iran
* Iranian caviar production continues to plummet
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Friday,
February 4, 2000
* U.S. would oppose World Bank loans to Iran
* Navy: Russian tanker has Iraq oil
WASHINGTON, Feb 2 (Reuters) - The United States would oppose any World
Bank loans to Iran, such as those for which the bank has completed the
preparatory work, State Department officials said on Wednesday. The United
States is required by law to vote against any multilateral loans to countries
on the State Department's list of ``state sponsors of terrorism,'' which
includes Iran, one of the officials said >>>
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* Navy: Russian tanker has Iraq oil
WASHINGTON (AP) - U.S. Navy officials say oil aboard a Russian tanker
detained in the Persian gulf is believed to have come from Iraq in violation
of a U.N. trade embargo. Russian officials said the oil came from Iran.
The guided missile cruiser USS Monterey, operating as part of an international
force monitoring Persian Gulf waters, stopped the Russian merchant vessel
Volga-Neft-147 Wednesday off the coast of the United Arab Emirates, the
Pentagon said >>>
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Thursday
February 3, 2000
* No comment on stopped Russian tanker
TEHRAN, Jan 3 (AFP) - The Iran oil ministry said Thursday it had no
comment on the US Navy's boarding of a Russian tanker Wednesday night,
on suspicion that it was smuggling Iraqi oil, amid protestations from Moscow
that the cargo was Iranian >>>
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Wednesday
February 2, 2000
* Iran insists businessman in Japan arms export scandal blameless
TEHRAN, Feb 2 (AFP) - Iran insisted Wednesday that one of its nationals
sought by Japanese police over an arms export scandal had done nothing
wrong and was the victim of "baseless" slurs by the Islamic republic's
enemies. Accusations that Iranian businessman Masoud Momtahan requested
delivery of 33,000 dollars of targetting sights for anti-tank rocket launchers
even though he knew special permission from the Japanese government was
needed for their export are "baseless," foreign ministry spokesman
Hamid-Reza Asefi said >>>
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* Israelis suspected of military equipment sales to Iran remanded
in custody
PETAH TIKVA, Israel, Feb 2 (AFP) - Two Israeli businessmen suspected
of selling millions of dollars of military equipment to the Jewish state's
arch-enemy Iran were remanded in custody on Wednesday, the Israeli news
agency ITIM reported. Petah Tikva magistrates' court ordered Eli Cohen,
50, held for eight days and Avihai Weinstein, 32, for five days following
their arrest Tuesday after a year-long investigation >>>
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* Iranian official slams Caspian oil pipeline
TEHRAN, Feb 2 (AFP) - An Iranian oil official slammed Wednesday US-inspired
plans to build a pipeline from the Caspian Sea to Turkey bypassing Iran
as economically unjustifiable and politically motivated. Deputy Oil Minister
for international affairs Mehdi Hosseini said in an interview with the
state news agency IRNA that the pipeline would be economically viable only
if oil prices rise significantly on the international markets >>> FULL TEXT
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Tuesday
February 1, 2000
* Oil swap plan not aimed to force OPEC output-US
LONDON, Jan 31 (Reuters) - U.S. Energy Secretary Bill Richardson said
on Monday a plan to push millions of barrels of oil onto the market through
swaps was not meant to pressure OPEC to raise output and lower buoyant
prices. Richardson, who has voiced concern about a price rally engineered
by OPEC output curbs, said that the Clinton administration had yet to decide
whether to go ahead with the plan which was at the stage of internal deliberations
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Monday
January 31, 2000
* World Bank making tentative moves to lend to Iran : Financial Times
LONDON, Jan 29 (AFP) - The World Bank is making tentative moves to resume
lending to Iran, ending a six-year suspension, in spite of US objections,
the Financial Times reported Saturday. It said the improvement in Tehran's
relations with European countries and Japan had led the bank to prepare
two projects needing more than 230 million dollars in finance >>> FULL TEXT
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* Iranian caviar production continues to plummet
TEHRAN, Jan 31 (AFP) - Iranian caviar production, in constant decline
over the past four years, scarcely amounted to 100 tonnes in 1999 compared
to an average 120 million tonnes in the two previous years, officials said
Monday. In the 1990s, Iran produced 300 tonnes a year, but in 1993, production
of the delicacy began to fall, with production just reaching 180 tonnes,
head of the National Fisheries Company Khodakaram Jalali told the official
IRNA agency said >>>
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