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Dec 3-7, 2000 / Azar 13-17, 1379

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* Kazakhs in talks to develop oil pipeline to Iran
* Iran backs off free trade zones
* Conoco sees quick change in Iran sanctions policy
* Lifting of US oil sanctions against Iran "inevitable": Iran
* Caviar production drops as poaching and pollution rise
* Oil production falls at key oil field
* Iran begins exporting doctors to Persian Gulf countries

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Friday,
December 8, 2000

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Thursday
December 7, 2000

Iran Air plans to buy 4 Airbus planes

TEHRAN (Reuters) - National carrier Iran Air plans to buy four Airbus ARBU.UL planes and is making payments on four others bought last year to refurbish its aging fleet, it said on Thursday. ``The purchase of four planes was finalized last year and our company has already made three five-percent payments on the deal. Four more planes are in line to be purchased,'' Iran Air Managing Director Ahmad Reza Kazemi said >>> FULL TEXT

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Wednesday
December 6, 2000

Kazakhs in talks to develop oil pipeline to Iran

ASTANA (Reuters) - Kazakhstan said on Wednesday it was in talks with international oil firms to create a consortium for a multi-billion dollar pipeline through Iran, a plan which could scupper the U.S-backed Baku-Ceyhan project to Turkey. A Foreign Ministry statement said Kazakhstan was holding discussions with TotalFina, BG plc and Agip to conduct a feasibility study for the Kazakhstan-Turkmenistan-Iran pipeline, which energy analysts say could be the cheapest evacuation route for Kazakh crude >>> FULL TEXT

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Iran backs off free trade zones

December 6 2000 (Financial Times) -- Iran's experiment with off-shore free trade zones (FTZs) has long been beset by controversy, from accusations of immoral behaviour to disputes over neckties and smuggling and factional fighting over business control. Now, 10 years after their inception, officials say the pro-reform government of President Mohammad Khatami is wrestling with a big policy change, recognising that the three zones have failed to achieve their goals of attracting foreign investment and boosting non-oil exports >>> FULL TEXT

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Tuesday
December 5, 2000

Conoco sees quick change in Iran sanctions policy

HOUSTON, Dec 5 (Reuters) - Conoco Inc.(NYSE:COCa - news)(NYSE:COCb - news) Chief Executive Archie Dunham said on Tuesday he expects the United States to drop unilateral economic sanctions against Iran within the next 12 months, regardless of who becomes president. ``I really believe that the policy will change in the next 12 months,'' Dunham told investment analysts in Houston >>> FULL TEXT

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Lifting of US oil sanctions against Iran "inevitable": Iran

TEHRAN, Dec 5 (AFP) - Iran's Deputy Oil Minister Hossein Kazempour-Ardebili said here on Tuesday a lifting of US oil sanctions against Iran was "inevitable." "The lifting of sanctions is from now on inevitable, because the democrats, like the republicans, know that they (the sanctions) are of no use," he said during a news conference >>> FULL TEXT

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Monday
December 4, 2000

Caviar production drops as poaching and pollution rise

One of the world's two major caviar-producing nations, Iran is witnessing a constant drop in its production as poaching and pollution continue to take a toll on the Caspian Sea's sturgeon population. "During the past 20 years, some 140 million sturgeon from the Caspian have disappeared," an Iranian official recently said, blaming the phenomenon on illegal fishing amid increasingly high prices for the black delicacy >>> FULL TEXT

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Oil production falls at key oil field

TEHRAN, Dec 2 (AFP) - Low extraction pressure has caused a drop in oil production at Agha-Jari, long-considered one of Iran's most important fields, Iranian newspapers reported Saturday, quoting a high official in Iran's oil ministry. "Because of a loss of pressure in the wells, production capacity at the Agha-Jari oil fields has declined to around 200,000 barrels per day (bpd) as opposed to one million bpd in previous years," said Mir Moezi, assistant director of the Iranian National Oil Company>>> FULL TEXT

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Iran begins exporting doctors to Persian Gulf countries

TEHRAN, Dec 3 (AFP) - Iran has started exporting them to neighbouring Persian Gulf countries to ease its increasing unemployment problem, press reports said Sunday. According to the government-run Iran paper, between 150 and 200 specialised physicians have already been sent to Persian Gulf states in line with a project to "export human resources >>> FULL TEXT

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