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* Iranian-Armenian negotiations on gas
* Car-buyers flocking to new Peugeot 206
* Chevron pulls out of gas project in Iran: press
* Iran consumes 174 million litres of oil products per day
* Khamenei calls on students to be tolerant
* Iran expecting more than one billion dollars in tourist
revenue
* Iran to begin accepting private bank applications next
week
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Friday,
January 5, 2001
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Thursday
January 4, 2001
Iranian-Armenian negotiations on gas
TEHRAN, Jan 4 (AFP) - Tehran's Oil Minister said Wednesday that renewed
negotiations were under way between Iran and Armenia for conveying Iranian
natural gas towards Armenia, official IRNA agency said. Head of the ministry's
gas affairs Hamdollah Mohammad-Nejad was quoted as saying that a "prior
agreement had been signed with Armenia in 1995" >>>
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Car-buyers flocking to new Peugeot 20
TEHRAN, Jan 4 (AFP) - Nearly 100,000 Iranian car-buyers are on the waiting
list for the new Peugeot 206 and dealers are no longer accepting orders,
press reports said Thursday >>>
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Wednesday
January 3, 2001
Chevron pulls out of gas project in Iran: press
TEHRAN, Jan 3 (AFP) - US oil giant Chevron pulled out of an investment
bid for the South Pars gas fields in the Persian gulf, following "political
pressure" from Washington, the daily Entekhab newspaper reported Wednesday.
"Chevron recently returned the documents of an invitation to tender
for the last four geographical zones in the exploitation of the South Pars
fields", which cover an area of 1,430 square miles (3,700 square kilometres)
in the Iranian and Qatari territorial waters, the newspaper said >>> FULL TEXT
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Iran consumes 174 million litres of oil products per day
TEHRAN, Jan 3 (AFP) - Iran, the world's second largest oil producer,
is also a major consumer of petrol (gasoline) and other oil products with
174 million litres a day, an official of the National Iranian oil products
distribution company, Ali Aghababai, said Wednesday. In November, he said
Tehran had substantially increased its petrol imports to meet rising national
demand, Iran's refineries being unable to boost their output >>>
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Tuesday
January 2, 2001
Iran expecting more than one billion dollars in tourist revenue
TEHRAN, Jan 1 (AFP) - Iran is expecting a total of more than one billion
dollars in revenue from tourism by the end of the current Iranian year
in March, the state IRNA news agency reported Monday. That figure marks
a massive jump from just over 350 million dollars in 1997, it said, as
the Islamic republic has worked to attract tourists and cut its dependence
on petrodollars >>>
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Iran to begin accepting private bank applications next week
TEHRAN, Jan 1 (AFP) - Iran will begin accepting applications next week
for the establishment of private banks with start-up capital of at least
25 million dollars, the central bank said Monday. But private banking will
still be off-limits to foreigners as applications will only be accepted
by Iranian nationals or legal entities, it said, cited by the state broadcasting
website >>>
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Monday
January 1, 2001
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