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* Kharrazi urges quick decision on Caspian
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* Iran proposes Caspian oil pipeline-Azeri official
* Iraq hopes for Iranian pilgrims
* Iran seeks Caspian energy transport deals-minister
* Khatami to Head New Economic
Reform Body
* Crude oil prices in Asia
drop sharply overnight
* 69 countires in Tehran
trade fair
* Profile BP Began Life
in Fields of Persia
* British Airways resumes direct flights to Tehran
* Three U.S. multinationals to join Iran trade fair
* UK, Iran discuss ways to improve relations
* Egyptian official: wide horizon open for cooperation
* Feature:
Reaching out, if he can
* Emami Kashani urges support for president's economic plan
* UNESCO studies Caspian Sea pollution
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Friday,
August 14, 1998
* Kharrazi urges quick decision on Caspian
ASHGABAT, Aug 13 (Reuters)- Iranian Foreign Minister Kamal Kharrazi
urged five states surrounding the Caspian Sea to speed up work on determining
its legal status because the unresolved issue blocked major energy projects.
``It is impossible to launch the construction of any oil and gas pipelines
as long as the status remains unresolved,'' Kharrazi told a news conference
after talks with Turkmenistan's President Saparmurat Niyazov and other
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Thursday
August 13, 1998
* Iran proposes Caspian oil pipeline-Azeri official
BAKU, Aug 13 (Reuters) - Iran has proposed building a 300-km (190-mile)
pipeline costing $400 million to transport Caspian energy resources through
its territory, an official in the Azeri government, who did not want to
be identified, said on Thursday. ``Iran proposes to build a pipeline linking
Baku with Tebriz in the north of Iran and then link it with the country's
pipeline system,'' he told Reuters... FULL
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* Iraq hopes for Iranian pilgrims
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - The first batch of Iranian pilgrims to cross the
Iran-Iraq border in 18 years is scheduled to arrive in Iraq on Saturday,
officials said today. The pilgrims will number no more than 220, according
to the Iranian authorities, but Iraq hopes that will soon rise to the 12,000
per month that the two states agreed on... FULL
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Wednesday
August 12, 1998
* Iran seeks Caspian energy transport deals-minister
BAKU, Aug 12 (Reuters) - Iran wants to transport Caspian energy resources
through its territory, Foreign Minister Kamal Kharrazi said on Wednesday
during a visit to Azerbaijan. ``Iran would like to participate in a major
regional projects implemented under your leadership. Particulary, we want
to take part in transportation of the Caspian energy resources from Azerbaijan,''
Kharrazi said at a meeting with Azeri President Haydar Aliyev... FULL
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Tuesday
August 11, 1998
* Iran's Khatami to Head New Economic Reform
Body
TEHRAN, Aug 6 (Reuters)- Iranian President Mohammad
Khatami will head a new task force charged with reforming the country's
economic structure, Tehran radio said on Tuesday. The most important goals
of the new body will be to reform Iran's foreign investment laws, tax collection
system and national employment regulations, the radio said ... FULL TEXT
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* Crude oil prices in Asia drop sharply overnight,
product prices may follow
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Crude oil prices in Asia
were close to 10-year lows on Tuesday, following a sharp drop in overnight
prices. The fall was likely to ease the pressure on refinery margins --
the difference between crude and product prices -- but analysts said they
expected products to catch up with crude's fall soon ... FULL TEXT
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* 69 countires in Tehran trade fair
TEHRAN (Hamshahri) - Companies from nearly 70
countries are to take part in the upcoming Tehran International Trade Fair
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* Profile BP Began Life in Fields of Persia
LONDON, Aug 11 (Reuters)- British Petroleum Co
Plc, which on Tuesday announced plans to merge with Amoco Corp of the United
States, started life at the turn of the twentieth century in the then untapped
fields of Persia. English adventurer William D'Arcy negotiated a concession
with the grand vizier of Persia in 1901 and seven years later his company
became the first to strike oil in the Middle East. D'Arcy then formed with
Burmah Oil the Anglo-Perisan Oil Co to exploit that huge find... FULL TEXT
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Monday
August 10, 1998
* British Airways resumes direct flights to Tehran
TEHRAN, Aug 10 (AFP) -A British Airways jet left Tehran for London Monday
as the company resumed direct flights between the capitals for the first
time since the 1979 Islamic revolution ... FULL
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* Three U.S. multinationals to join Iran trade fair
TEHRAN, Iran (Reuters) - Three U.S. multi-national firms will join more
than 200 companies from 69 countries to participate in the annual Tehran
International Trade Fair in October, Iran's official news agency IRNA said
on Monday. Hossein Esfahbodi, the deputy director of Iran's Export Promotion
Center, told IRNA that ``three multi-national companies from America are
to participate in the fair.'' ... FULL
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