Eurasia Press & News
Sept. 30–An Iranian official said on Saturday that Russia today has a golden opportunity to approach the Muslim world, since the two need each other. Ayatollah Mohammad Ali Taskhiri,
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October, 2006
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9 October
Germany Keen to Boost Economic Ties with Iran
TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- German Ambassador to Tehran voiced his country’s enthusiasm for developing economic relations with Iran.
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9 October
Iran Hopes to See OPEC Basket back at $60
TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iranian Oil Minister Kazem Vaziri Hamaneh said here on Saturday that he hoped the OPEC basket oil price would hit $60 a barrel or more in the next few days.
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9 October
Iran’s Former President Khatami to Visit Britain
TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iran’s reformist former president Mohammad Khatami is to visit Britain for the first time to open an Iranian studies university department and receive an honorary PhD, his office said.
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9 October
Iran to Negotiate with 3 US Companies
TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- An informed source said that in case sanctions are called off, Tehran will start negotiations with three airplane engine and spare parts manufacturing companies of the United States in the near future.
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9 October
Hoseini to Be Appointed as Iran’s Ambassador to Saudi Arabia
TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- An informed source said that Iran’s ambassador to Senegal, Mohammad Hoseini, is due to be appointed as the country’s ambassador to Saudi Arabia.
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9 October
Nuclear Issue United States’ Excuse for Pressuring Iran
TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iranian Parliament Speaker Gholam Ali Haddad Adel said if the West continues posing threats and sanctions against Tehran, that would mean that the nuclear issue is just an excuse for the US and some other powers to exert pressure on Iran.
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9 October
Iran Cuts Oil Rights to 10%
TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- The Japanese government acknowledged Friday that Inpex Corp. has agreed to reduce its interests in the development of Iran’s Azadegan oil field to 10 percent from the current 75 percent after days of talks over the stalled $2 billion deal.
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9 October
FM Meets Angolan Ambassador
TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Angola’s accredited ambassador to Tehran Pedro Hendrik Vall Neto met with Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki here on Saturday and submitted his credentials to him.
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9 October
MP Views London Meeting a Political Maneuver to Pressurize Iran
TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Member of the Iranian Parliament’s Presiding Board Hamid Reza Hajji Baba’ee defined the recent meeting of the Group 5+1 in London as just a political-propaganda maneuver to exert pressure on Iran.
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