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Iran hopes its new moderate image will help tourism
Tehran (Reuters) - Iran hopes its improving image abroad will help lift
its depressed tourism industry, but many fear Islamic social restrictions
could keep foreigners away. "The bitter truth is that our negative
image, created by negative propaganda, has been a fatal poison for our
tourism industry since the revolution," says Iran's chief tourism
official Mohammad Moezzeddin. "We want to improve this image and President
(Mohammad) Khatami's open-door and detente policy is the main key to this
goal," he told journalists this week. Iran's once-vibrant tourism
industry all but died after the 1979 revolution as the ruling Shi'ite Moslem
clergy tried to construct a pure Islamic state >>>
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OPEC Raises Hopes for Cheaper Oil
VIENNA (Reuters) - OPEC Friday gave grounds for optimism that the oil
cartel will mount its third supply increase in a year to soothe an international
outcry over high energy costs. The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting
Countries, under fire to ease fuel bills and temper inflationary pressures,
is thought likely to lift output by about 700,000 barrels daily, just under
3 percent, when it meets Sunday >>>
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* Iran hopes its new moderate image will
help tourism
* OPEC Raises Hopes for Cheaper Oil
* Iran, German firms ally on refinery
* Japan to help Iran grow more rice: diplomat
* Crude oil hits 10-year high
* Iran: US attempts to lift sanctions
* Parliament abolishes duty on non-oil exports
* Iran issues tenders for new Persian Gulf gas blocks
* Iran Speaker meets Chevron,Conoco over US sanctions
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September 7, 2000
Iran, German firms ally on refinery
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - A German engineering firm and an Iranian conglomerate
have won a $158.4 million contract to build what both companies say will
be the world's largest natural gas refinery. The two companies, Germany's
Linde and Iran's Nargan, signed the contract with Iran's Pars Petrochemical
Company in Tehran on Wednesday, Nargan manager Shahrokh Moaveni told The
Associated Press on Thursday. Foreign companies are required to enter into
partnership with Iranian firms to execute contracts >>>
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Japan to help Iran grow more rice: diplomat
TEHRAN, Sept 7 (AFP) - Japan will help develop Iranian rice paddies
along the Caspian Sea, a Japanese diplomat said Thursday at the groundbreaking
for a Japanese-Iranian agriculture training center in the northern city
of Amol. "I believe that Japan's expertise in land consolidation will
certainly be able to contribute to the promotion of land consolidation
and mechanization in Iran," Hiroshi Azuma said, according to the text
of his speech >>>
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Wednesday
September 6, 2000
Crude oil hits 10-year high
Sept 6, (AP) - Crude oil prices raced to their highest level in 10 years
Wednesday on the New York Mercantile Exchange and analysts said they may
go much higher if OPEC doesn't step up production significantly, and soon.
For consumers, that could translate into pricier gasoline and heftier home
heating bills this winter.>>>
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Tuesday
September 5, 2000
Iran: US attempts to lift sanctions
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Iran's parliament speaker said Sunday that attempts
are being made in the United States to lift trade sanctions against Iran,
the official Islamic Republic News Agency reported after American and Iranian
lawmakers met for the first time since the 1979 Islamic revolution. ``It
seems that there are efforts under way in the United States for lifting
sanctions against Iran,'' IRNA quoted Mahdi Karrubi as saying Sunday after
returning from New York where he and four other Iranian lawmakers attended
a meeting of world parliament leaders at the United Nations >>>
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Parliament abolishes duty on non-oil exports
TEHRAN, Sept 4 (AFP) - Iran's reformist-dominated parliament Sunday
passed the broad outlines of a law aimed at boosting non-oil exports which
have plummeted in the past few years. The law, which will abolish "various
duties" on the exports, was adopted despite the opposition of the
economics committee and the rervations of some reformist MPs. Details will
be worked out in later readings >>>
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Iran issues tenders for new Persian Gulf gas blocks
TEHRAN, Sept 3 (AFP) - Iran has called for tenders to develop the latest
phases of the giant South Pars gas field in the Persian Gulf, press reports
said Sunday, quoting the National Iranian Oil Company. The two tenders
cover phases nine and 10, and 11 and 12, with projected total daily output
of 105 million cubic metres (3.675 billion cubic feet) of gas and 160,000
barrels of crude oil >>>
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