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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
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* 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 >>> FULL TEXT

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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 >>> FULL TEXT

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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 >>> FULL TEXT

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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 >>> FULL TEXT

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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 >>> FULL TEXT

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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 >>> FULL TEXT

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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 >>> FULL TEXT

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