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Iran plans more public spending
Financial Times, November 29 2000 -- President Mohammad Khatami of Iran,
presenting his last budget before elections next year, on Wednesday defended
his administration's economic record against harsh attacks by his conservative
opponents. Iran's sluggish economy, weighed down by enormous subsidies
on food and fuel and loss-making state enterprises, is widely regarded
as Mr Khatami's weakest point by an electorate struggling to cope with
high inflation and unemployment >>>
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* Iran plans more public spending
* Iran Wants Russia To Build Second Nuclear Reactor -Report
* First Iran-made airliner to fly in February
* Khatami presents last budget, vows economy is "running
well"
* Iran expects record oil revenues thanks to higher prices
* Turkmenistan and Iran discuss Caspian Sea status
* Iran sets 20 dollar crude price for next budget
* Iranian conservatives see election gambit
in government's monetary policy
* New proposal breathes fresh life into
Indo-Iran gas pipeline
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Thursday
November 30, 2000
Iran Wants Russia To Build Second Nuclear Reactor -Report
November 30, MOSCOW (AP)--Iran has decided to ask Russia to build a
second reactor at the nuclear power plant in Bushehr, offering a contract
worth some $1 billion, a Russian newspaper reported Thursday. The business
daily Vedomosti quoted Andrei Yedemsky, a spokesman for the Nuclear Power
Ministry, as saying that the Iranian parliament had decided that the contract
for the second reactor at the plant in southern Iran should be awarded
to Russia >>>
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Wednesday
November 29, 2000
First Iran-made airliner to fly in February
TEHRAN, Nov 29 (AFP) - The prototype of the first airliner to be built
in Iran will fly on February 11 next year, anniversary of the 1979 Islamic
revolution, Defence Minister Ali Shamkhani was quoted as saying Wednesday
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Khatami presents last budget, vows economy is "running well"
TEHRAN, Nov 29 (AFP) - Iranian President Mohammad Khatami on Wednesday
presented the final budget of his four-year term amid strong conservative
criticism over his handling of the economy as he readies for a possible
re-election run next year. Khatami told parliament the record 135 trillion
rial budget, worth 45 billion dollars at the official exchange rate, would
pave the way to making the Iranian currency fully convertible on the international
market >>>
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Tuesday
November 28, 2000
Iran expects record oil revenues thanks to higher prices
TEHRAN, Nov 28 (AFP) - Iran expects to generate record revenues of 21.5
billion dollars from oil sales in the year to March 2001 thanks to higher
prices, the governor of the central bank, Mohsen Nourbakhsh, said Tuesday.
"We earned 15.6 billion dollars in oil sales between March 2000 and
the end of October and, if the current trend in prices continues, our revenues
will reach 21.5 billion dollars" at the end of the fiscal year, Nourbakhsh
told a press conference >>>
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Turkmenistan and Iran discuss Caspian Sea statu
Turkmen President Saparmurat Niyazov and Iran's Deputy Foreign Minister
Ali Ahani have discussed proposals on the status of the disputed resource-rich
Caspian Sea, official reports said Tuesday. Ahani, Iran's special representative
on Caspian issues, and Niyazov "confirmed the closeness of the positions"
of the two countries on the issue of resolving the status of the inland
sea, the Neutraly Turkmenistan reported >>>
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Monday
November 27, 2000
Iran sets 20 dollar crude price for next budget
TEHRAN, Nov 27 (AFP) - The government of reformist President Khatami
is basing next year's budget on an oil price of 20 dollars per barrel,
parliamentary officials said in Monday's press >>>
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Iranian conservatives see election gambit in government's monetary
policy
TEHRAN, Nov 26 (AFP) - Iranian conservatives, influential in traditional
economic and trade circles, are accusing President Mohammad Khatami's government
of flooding the market with dollars to manipulate next year's presidential
election >>>
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New proposal breathes fresh life into Indo-Iran gas pipeline
NEW DELHI, Nov 24 (AFP) - A long delayed gas pipeline between India
and Iran may finally be near fruition after a suggestion from Tehran that
an international consortium take over the project >>>
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