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* Iran oil opening slowed by wider reforms
* Rafsanjani calls for up to 50 pct oil output cut
* Russian Duma indignant over U.S. Iran moves
* U.S., Russia trade gibes over Iran
* Tehran-Karaj intercity train ready
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* Russia to triple number of nuke workers in Iran
* MAPNA set for fierce Iran energy race
* Tracer Petroleum seeking opportunities in Iran
* British diplomat in Iran for talks on ties, Iraq
* Iran's Khatami to discuss oil on Saudi visit
* Iran, Britain to exchange ambassadors soon: paper
* Iran denies secret ties with Russian institutes
* Khatami to visit to France after Noruz
* U.S. punishes 3 Russia institutions
* Draft budget based on $10/barrel oil-deputy
* Iran output fix seen needed before OPEC meet
* Iran considers Caspian pipeline partners
* Russia to push forward with nuclear reactor
* Iran gives ministries less than half their budgets
* Iran struggling to boost non-oil exports
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Friday,
January 15, 1999
* Iran oil opening slowed by wider reforms
LONDON, Jan 15 (Reuters) - Iran's drive for foreign energy investment
has become mired in wider reforms that may delay big-ticket deals for months
or years, oil executives say. Iranian negotiators running the biggest oil
tender since the 1979 revolution have found themselves on a roller-coaster
ride of economic change driven by shifting political forces. One victim
could be a campaign to land one or two morale- boosting showpiece agreements
with Western majors by the end of the Iranian year on March 20 ... FULL
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* Rafsanjani calls for up to 50 pct oil output cut
TEHRAN, Jan 15 (Reuters) - Former Iranian President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
on Friday called on oil producers to cut output by up to 50 percent to
boost weak oil prices. ``We must cut production by a certain amount until
demand outweighs supply. This amount could be 20 percent, 30 percent or
50 percent,'' Rafsanjani, who now heads a top state body, said in a Friday
prayer sermon broadcast on Tehran radio... FULL
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* Russian Duma indignant over U.S. Iran moves
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's lower house of parliament blasted the United
States Friday for imposing sanctions on three Moscow institutes for allegedly
helping Iran's nuclear and missile programs. The State Duma ``expresses
its indignation in connection with the United States' groundless introduction
of sanctions against a series of Russian organizations,'' it said. The
house passed the document unanimously in a preliminary vote ... FULL
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* U.S., Russia trade gibes over Iran
January 15, 1999 (The Washington Post) - Relations between the United
States and Russia have gotten off to a rocky start this year, as for the
second straight day officials here harshly criticized Washington for taking
Moscow to task over arms proliferation issues. In the latest instance,
the Kremlin reacted testily ... FULL
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* Tehran-Karaj intercity train ready
Tehran (Hamshahri) - The intercity electric train between Tehran and
Kataj (part of the Tehran metro project) will be inaugurated next month
and begin official operation in March. In the first phase there will be
three train services between 11 am and 2 pm ... FULL
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Thursday
January 14, 1999
* Russia to triple number of nuke workers in Iran
MOSCOW, Jan 14 (Reuters) - Fresh U.S. accusations that Moscow is helping
Tehran build nuclear weapons and missiles have flared at a time when Russia
plans to more than triple its staff of nuclear workers in Iran, an official
said on Thursday. A spokesman for the Atomic Energy Ministry told Reuters
on Thursday Russia will increase its staff at the site of the Bushehr civilian
nuclear reactor in Iran over the next few months to 1,000 people from about
300 now ... FULL
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* MAPNA set for fierce Iran energy race
DUBAI, Jan 14 (Reuters) - MAPNA, a little-known Iranian firm specialising
in thermal power plants, looks poised to be a tough competitor in the fierce
international race for Iran's lucrative oil and gas ventures. MAPNA --
the Iran Power Plant Projects Management Co. -- made its debut in Iranian
oil by clinching a $347 million deal to build a Caspian Sea pipeline, beating
Italian, British, German, Russian, South Korean and Saudi competitors.
Armed with connections in Iran's oil industry and business and government
circles, the company set up in 1993 has ambitions to penetrate Iran's energy
scene ... FULL
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* Tracer Petroleum seeking opportunities in Iran
VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Jan. 14 /PRNewswire/ -- TRACER PETROLEUM
CORPORATION reports that further to the news release dated December 11,
1998, a new subsidiary, Tracer Petroleum International ("TPI"),
is in the process of being incorporated in Bermuda for the purpose of pursuing
oil and gas opportunities in Iran ... FULL
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* British diplomat in Iran for talks on ties, Iraq
TEHRAN, Jan 14 (Reuters) - A senior British Foreign Office official
held talks with Iranian officials on relations between Tehran and London
and on the Iraqi crisis, Iran's official news agency IRNA reported on Thursday.
Bahram Qassemi, director-general for Western European affairs at the Iranian
Foreign Ministry, told Derek Plumbly: ``Iran is seriously determined to
remove obstacles and to boost bilateral relations based on the talks and
agreements between the two countries' foreign ministers in New York,''
IRNA said ... FULL
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Wednesday
January 13, 1999
* Iran's Khatami to discuss oil on Saudi visit
DUBAI, Jan 13 (Reuters) - Iranian President Mohammad Khatami will discuss
poor oil market conditions with Saudi leaders as part of his landmark visit
to the kingdom expected in the second half of March, Iranian sources said
on Wednesday. ``The president will discuss the situation in the oil market
on his trip to Saudi Arabia,'' one of the sources said on Wednesday. ``It
is natural that two big producers discuss the market and issues that are
of mutual concern regarding this,'' he added. Iranian embassy sources in
Riyadh said the Khatami trip was expected to take place in the second half
of March ... FULL
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* Iran, Britain to exchange ambassadors soon: paper
TEHRAN, Jan 13 (AFP) - Iran and Britain are to upgrade their diplomatic
relations to ambassadorial level following their agreement over the British
writer Salman Rushdie, a newspaper here reported Wednesday. The English-language
Iran News, which is considered close to Iran's foreign ministry, said the
two countries would promote their respective charges d'affaires Nicholas
Browne and Gholamreza Ansari to ambassadors ... FULL
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* Iran denies secret ties with Russian institutes
TEHRAN, Jan 13 (AFP) - Iran on Wednesday denied US charges that it worked
with three Russian research institutes to develop nuclear and missile technology.
"These accusations are not new and Iranian and Russian authorities
have already denied them," the Iranian embassy in Moscow said in a
statement, quoted by the official Iranian news agency IRNA ... FULL TEXT
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* Khatami to visit to France sometime after Iranian new year
TEHRAN, Jan 13 (AFP) - Iranian President Mohammad Khatami will pay a
ground-breaking visit to France sometime after the Iranian new year in
March, although the date has not yet been set, the foreign ministry said
Wednesday. The ministry, quoted by the official Iranian news agency, said
the visit is "on the agenda" but will not take place before the
Iranian new year which will start March 21 ... FULL
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Tuesday
January 12, 1999
* U.S. punishes 3 Russia institutions
Jan 12, WASHINGTON (AP) - The United States imposed penalties on a Moscow
university and two other Russian institutions Tuesday, accusing Russia
of failing to stop its scientists from helping Iran and other states develop
nuclear weapons. National Security adviser Sandy Berger, in announcing
the economic sanctions, said Russia needs an export control system that
is ``designed to work and does.'' ``Only Russia can police its own borders,
factories and technology industries,'' he said while asserting the Clinton
adminstration's authority to act against foreign companies or agencies
that ``violate international nonproliferation standards.'' ... FULL
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* Iran draft budget based on $10/barrel oil-deputy
TEHRAN, Jan 12 (Reuters) - Iran's 1999/2000 draft budget bill is based
on an ``optimistic'' crude oil price forecast of $10 per barrel, the head
of a parliament commission was on Tuesday quoted as saying. ``The commission
has ratified the optimistic assumption of $10 per barrel of oil,'' the
Iranian news agency IRNA quoted Morteza Nabavi, head of one of the commissions
which handled the budget bill, as saying ... FULL
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* Iran output fix seen needed before OPEC meet
DUBAI, Jan 12 (Reuters) - OPEC kingpin Saudi Arabia and other producers
want the thorny issue of Iran's oil production baseline resolved before
the cartel could hold any emergency meeting, an OPEC delegate said on Tuesday.
``Saudi Arabia and other producers in OPEC believe the issue of Iran's
production should be resolved before any emergency meeting could be held,''
the OPEC delegate told Reuters ... FULL
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Monday
January 11, 1999
* Iran's MAPNA considers Caspian pipeline partners
DUBAI, Jan 11 (Reuters) - Iranian project management company MAPNA said
on Monday that it had won a $347 million deal to build a Caspian Sea oil
pipeline to the country's northern refineries and was considering consortium
partners. MAPNA regional manager Reza Ebadzadeh told Reuters that his firm
had been informed by the National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC) that it won
the contract, beating Italian, British, German, Russian, South Korean and
Saudi competitors ... FULL
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* Russia to push forward with Iran nuclear reactor
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia said Saturday it would push forward with the
construction of an atomic reactor in Iran, a project which has been criticized
by the United States and Israel for threatening security in the Middle
East. The United States and Israel fear the planned 1,000 megawatt light-water
reactor at Bushehr on the Gulf coast will help Iran develop nuclear weapons.
But Russia and Iran have repeatedly denied the charges ... FULL
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* Cash-strapped Iran gives ministries less than half their budgets
TEHRAN, Jan 10 (AFP) - Iranian ministries have received less than half
their nominal budgets this year as government revenues continue to plummet
because of low oil prices, the official news agency IRNA reported Sunday.
"The government has been able to allocate between 40 and 45 percent
of the budget earmarked for ministries and state organisations," said
parliamentary speaker Ali Akbar Nateq-Nuri, quoted by the official IRNA
news agency ... FULL
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* Iran struggling to boost non-oil exports
TEHRAN, Jan 11 (AFP) - Iran, the second largest oil producer in the
Middle East, is taking steps to boost non-oil exports to make up for falling
revenues from crude sales, an export official said Monday. Mojtaba Khosrotaj,
the director of Iran's exports promotion center, told a press conference
that his country would stage a major exhibition of exportable products
in early February to attract foreign consumers and ease its near total
dependence on oil sales ... FULL
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