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* Iranian contractors in world markets, a must
* Chicken: 900 tomans a kilo
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* Iran Air eyes new routes, new planes
* Iran to sue German firms over chemical weapons
* Dollar rises above 600 tomans
* Iran spent $100mln in year for jobs,infrastructure
* Boost to trade with Germany
* Iran boosts sturgeon breeding to raise caviar output
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Friday,
Sept 4, 1998
* Iranian contractors in world markets, a must
TEHRAN, Sept. 3, (IRNA) - oil minister bijan namdar-zanganeh addressing
a seminar on buy-back based projects by the national iranian oil company
(nioc) here thursday said that the iranian oil and gas contractors through
their participation in implementation of buy-back based projects would
be able to prove their proper presence in the world markets for exporting
technical and engineering services.... FULL
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* Chicken: 900 tomans a kilo
TEHRAN, (Hamshahri) - The price of chicken is on the rise in many cities
because of production and distribution difficulties. Average price: 900
tomans per kilo (9,000 rials=$1.4)... FULL
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Thursday
Sept 3, 1998
* Iran Air eyes new routes, new planes
TEHRAN, Sept 3 (Reuters) - Flag carrier Iran Air plans to start flights
to Canada soon and to buy six new aircraft to refurbish its ageing fleet,
the airline's head said on Thursday. ``Up to now we have reached the North
American market, which is important for us not least because of the large
number of Iranians living there, through cooperation with other airlines,
but we would like to provide access in a more convenient way,'' Iran Air
Managing Director Ahmad Reza Kazemi told Reuters ... FULL
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* Iran to sue German firms over chemical weapons
TEHRAN, Sept 3 (Reuters) - Iran on Thursday named nine German companies
it has said would face legal action for allegedly supplying chemical weapons
to Iraq during its 1980-88 war with Iran. State-run Tehran radio quoted
judiciary spokesman Fotovat Nassiri-Savadkuhi as saying that a court in
Tehran would hear charges filed by Iranian victims of chemical attacks
against the German firms ... FULL
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Wednesday
Sept 2, 1998
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Tuesday
Sept 1, 1998
No news was gathered today because of technical difficulties.
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Monday
August 31, 1998
* Dollar rises above 600 tomans
TEHRAN, Aug 31 (Reuters) - The Iranian rial has fallen nearly nine percent
against the dollar on the black market in the past few weeks on high demand
for hard currencies, dealers said on Monday. Street dealers charged 6,100
rials for each dollar on Tehran's illegal but active black market, from
some 5,600 rials about a month ago ... FULL
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* Iran spent $100mln in year for jobs,infrastructure
TEHRAN, Aug 31 (Reuters) - Iran has in the past year spent 300 billion
rials ($100 million) on more than 2,000 development projects in deprived
rural areas in an effort to create jobs and improve infrastructure, state
television said on Monday. The projects have created 2,200 jobs and already
provide services to 340,000 families, the head of rural affairs in Iran's
government was quoted by the television as saying ... FULL
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* Boost to trade with Germany
TEHRAN, (Hamshahri) - Trade between Iran and Germany has been given
a boost as Bonn resumes insuring exports to Iran ... FULL
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* Iran boosts sturgeon breeding to raise caviar output
TEHRAN, Aug 31 (Reuters) - Iran has raised the number of young sturgeon
it breeds for release in the Caspian Sea to 24.5 million in the year to
March, up 15.3 percent from last year, a newspaper reported on Monday.
The daily Jahan-e Eqtesad quoted the state fisheries agency as saying the
sturgeon were bred at five centres to boost the number of fish and thereby
caviar production ... FULL
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